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UK minister: Brexit checks ‘price you pay for being a sovereign state again’
(www.theguardian.com)
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That wasn't what Brexiteers were campaigning for. They were going for the type of sovereignty in William Rees-Mogg's book "The Sovereign Individual", in which he defines one as someone who earns more than $200,000 a year (in 1990s money) and uses their wealth and influence to act above the laws of any nation. The EU stood to prevent that, so they pushed for the UK to leave - and duped a bunch of gullible fools into believing it was about them and "hour cuntry".
The sad thing is they pulled the same tricks again in 2019 to get Boris into 10 Downing St. Facebook ads targeted at people who would lap it up, things like showing bread lines and saying this is what Corbyn would have brought. Such ads excluded those that would challenge them and call out the lies, leaving people in a nice little echo chamber with no time to be corrected before they went to the polls.
In the words of Zuckerberg, the dumb fucks.
Now there are warm banks instead
I've read that book and it is entirely unrelated to Brexit. The sovereignty the Brexiteers were seeking is also entirely unrelated.
The book itself doesn't talk about Brexit, no, but if you read my comment I mentioned how the EU was planning on restricting the kind of activity the book describes.
With regards to campaigning, the point I'm making is that whenever campaigners like Jacob Rees-Mogg talk about "sovereignty", he's referring to what the book mentioned. Meanwhile, the people supporting Brexit think it's about UK sovereignty.
And the point I'm making is that you're wrong.