06-04-2019, 08:38 AM
(06-03-2019, 12:17 PM)gordi Wrote: If the UK leaves the EU, taking Scotland with it... then we (Scots) will be subject to any new trade deals etc that the UK Govt at Westminster decides to make (without our agreement).
We will have no say whatsoever if WM sells off our Health Service, our Fisheries, our Food Hygiene / Quality / Health & Safety Standards, our Ban on Fracking, our Employment protection laws, pensions, free movement etc etc etc etc
Hi Gordi!
Welcome to America!
Of course, like Scotland, the US didn't START out like that - it evolved into that as the central government seized more and more power over what were originally independent and co-equal states, which are what the former colonies became upon their independence. The central federal government started out small and weak, just a regulator of commerce between the independent states, and even that took a lot of negotiating...
... but now, here we are, what we are. The southern states bucked against that developing power and declared their own independence, and that didn't go as well as we wished. In the aftermath of that war, the power and authority of the central government was pretty much set in stone.
Just a word to the wise, a lesson from history.
It will probably be tomorrow before I can get to a reply to your next post below.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’