Unprecedented compared to who? Every sovereign state has more control than the EU does: US, China, etc.
> Notice how they chopped up the UK during Brexit.
How did the EU chop up the UK?
The EU have offered many opportunities for the UK to harmonise with the EU on many issues, while continuing with Brexit. For the most part, UK rejected repeated offers that would grant UK people and businesses more rights.
For example, the rights of British people to freely travel in EU countries could have been kept, but the UK said we don't want our people to have that, as the price of mirroring it by allowing EU citizens the ability to travel in the UK is too high.
EU offered to let students from the UK travel through EU under the Erasmus scheme. UK said no.
EU offered a customs union, where standards were more harmonised and the would need to be far fewer checks at borders. That would have been far cheaper for every business in the UK that sells into the EU. UK rejected that. UK actively wants to diverge from EU standards (e.g. for things like food). It shouldn't be surprising that EU will protect businesses that conform to those standards over those seeking to undermine them.
Businesses in Northern Ireland currently have advantageous access to the EU in ways no other part of the UK does. I don't mean the physical access to Ireland, I mean administrative access to the EU markets. You can see it in tax and import/export forms. There are currently reasons to set up businesses in Northern Irelend to get that foot-in-both-worlds advantage.
A lot of businesses in the UK mainland would love to have the same rights as businesses in Northern Ireland. Especially those in Scotland who didn't vote to leave anyway, and see it as an England-imposed harm on them.
What would you expect should happen, that UK should be allowed to use Nothern Ireland as backdoor to send unchecked goods to the EU, imported from say the USA and Australia and re-exported into the whole EU market with no border checks anywhere?
Of course not. That's exactly GGP's point I was trying to prove.
> The EU already has unprecedented control over commerce.
And I agree with it.
But the central British government, which does not seem to care much about their Northern Irish citizens, either forgot or just didn't care at all, about the fact that Northern Ireland is in limbo, stuck between Ireland and the UK. So any kind of EU - UK split would have reopened old wounds.
Wounds which actually the EU helped heal, back in 1998.
Given that the UK is a party to the Good Friday Agreement, AND it wants to leave the EU and no longer comply with EU law, the current situation, or something very similar, is inevitable. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
The EU chopped up UK business marketshare, business leadership, professional lives for little more than a gram of power.
I feel like it is necessary to point out the similarities between the CCP and European Parliament.
>72% of citizens oppose digital monitoring, while 77% of their representatives vote for laws they emphatically do not want
It represents sovereign states.
> The EU chopped up UK business marketshare, business leadership, professional lives for little more than a gram of power.
How, exactly?
> I feel like it is necessary to point out the similarities between the CCP and European Parliament.
Please expand on this.
not in every case.
>How, exactly?
There are a variety of good articles out there should you choose to examine the subject. I'll concede the point because I dont have time.
>Please expand on this.
This is seemingly a very unpopular law.
The EP's support from citizens in the eurozone is dubious at best
