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Originally Posted by parmnion
Only reason we didn't get the deal is because of the snobbery of the EU unelected leaders..the cons are merely guilty of underestimating the people they had to deal with.
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If the EU was a football club with 28 players on its books and one was disruptive and wanting to leave.
In any scenario they'd let the whining one go and protect to hold onto the 27 dedicated players left.
Now no doubt you'll fire back that is a silly comparison, fair enough.
However I think not.
We applied and applied to join up to the 70s, the then EEC, we moaned all the time at De Gaulle using his veto to stop us.
We got in via the Cons once De Gaulle was gone.
We then had our governments we elected time after time, signing treaties and forming the now EU.
Thatcher one of the strongest advocates of the single market.
We got a rebate via her efforts.
We have an opt out to ever joining the Euro.
Like all EU members we have a veto too.
If one EU Nation uses its veto as we could have.
Anything we didn't want or like could not be implemented.
Now we want to leave, yet also not even want the trading elements now, we desperately wanted to be part of.
Why on earth should the EU now bend to please us and do all they can for us.
It's pathetic to think they should.
The EEC was set up without us.
We really aren't that special in the wider global picture of things.