EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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in reply to @el_presidente

The refusal to offer diplomatic rights to the EU Ambassador is spectacularly stupid. On the face of it, just some more petty points scoring, but of course we need to liaise and communicate even more with the EU now, so immediately pissing them off really is a bad idea

I don't think it's a spectacularly stupid idea to not treat an international organisation as a sovereign nation. I can't think of any reason why we anyone would want to give them those rights, to be honest.

I do think it completely undermines the argument that the UK lacked sovereignty when it was a member, however. If the EU isn't sovereign, but instead the member states which make it up are, what was all that moaning about sovereignty really about? Oh yeah...

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Dammit in reply to @

I don't think it's a spectacularly stupid idea to not treat an international organisation as a sovereign nation. I can't think of any reason why we anyone would want to give them those rights, to be honest.

I do think it completely undermines the argument that the UK lacked sovereignty when it was a member, however. If the EU isn't sovereign, but instead the member states which make it up are, what was all that moaning about sovereignty really about? Oh yeah...

We agreed to recognise the EU in that way when we signed the Lisbon treaty, and treated them as having those rights whilst we were in the EU. We're also literally the only country that doesn't recognise the EU ambo as such (now).

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