02-18-2024, 10:52 AM
In regard to the EU and the U.K.'s "Brexit," I believe there were always doubts in some circles regarding the relationship between "UK sovereignty " and "EU primacy." Interestingly, the same few generations of people who saw the birth of the "European Community" in the '70s and its maturation into the European Union actually experienced, first-hand, all those things they were warned about before they committed to the 'EU.'
The UK was the only sovereign nation that appears to have understood the math and withdrew. The idea that a nation of people should abandon the laws they developed and the courts they implemented, in favor of a 'theoretical' ideal provided by an "outside" entity whose only connection to your nation was 'geographic regionality' proved ill-advised.
But they did demonstrate what many the West thought unlikely... that the 'divorce' could be amicable... go figure.
I think it is difficult to categorize Brexit as a "secession." No nation in that loose affiliation of economic cooperation can be said to be 'subordinated' to the whole... (unless you ask the banks for whom this was all done.)
The UK was the only sovereign nation that appears to have understood the math and withdrew. The idea that a nation of people should abandon the laws they developed and the courts they implemented, in favor of a 'theoretical' ideal provided by an "outside" entity whose only connection to your nation was 'geographic regionality' proved ill-advised.
But they did demonstrate what many the West thought unlikely... that the 'divorce' could be amicable... go figure.
I think it is difficult to categorize Brexit as a "secession." No nation in that loose affiliation of economic cooperation can be said to be 'subordinated' to the whole... (unless you ask the banks for whom this was all done.)
