On 09/09/2019 10:52, Pancho wrote:
On 09/09/2019 10:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


Consider the possibility that the EU got essentially bought by a
cartel of multinationals and banks who proceeded to run it as a
criminal organisation.


I do consider this possibility. But why is the EU worse than the UK in
this respect? A fundamental power of multinationals is that they operate
above national laws. In free trade areas they can play individual
nations off against each other. There needs to be international control
over multinationals or tariffs to protect a state from multinationals
operating offshore .

My personal view is the the UK is too small an economic area to make
tariffs work.

How would you stop it 'from inside'?


The question is the same for Brussels or Westminster.


But the answer is different.

That is why we are leaving



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