On 19/05/17 11:13, James Harris wrote:
I was illustrating that it is not a trade block. It has a flag, an
anthem, a parliament, a means of taxing people, an armed force - at
least one "battlegroup", and now its own foreign policy. It is becoming
a superstate.

*Trying* to become...

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"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift.