I'm going to try and find the time to do my "Yes we were definitely told about Political Union", but it's become a bit like shooting fish in a barrel recently.
I mean, who can watch that clip and still believe this was a secret?

Then there is: "We were told it was just a Common Market"

You weren't...you really weren't. I don't care how you remember it.
"We weren't told there would be a loss of Sovereignty" - Really?

Here is Enoch Powell explaining that "of course" there is a loss to parliamentary Sovereignty because it is merged, and that the people advocating joining are the ones who are emphasising this fact more....
I've found lots of people talking about Sovereignty. I found lots of people talking about political union, but you know what I haven't found?

Anyone saying "It's only a Common Market" or "It's just about trade".

I have never found anyone saying that.
The Political union was even mentioned in the 1975 "Sovereignty" debate....

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Adrian's words, obviously, not the words of Monnet, who published an article in the UK, France, Germany, and the US, that said it was necessary to explain to the public and the governments. Image
Just economic purpose? I don't know... Image
"The United States of Europe means: a federal power linked to peaceful exploration of Atomic energy".

If keeping this secret involved not mentioning it in interviews, he really wasn't very good at it. Image
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The original proposal for a Common Market specifically states that the creation would help free trade in a world where the American Smoot–Hawley policy had driven tariffs up around the world.
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@PKBook22 @heywoodbill @tconnellyRTE Right, so, I guess it's time for a history lesson.

When the European project comes along, we don't want to be a part of it because how it affects our relationship to the Commonwealth and the Sterling area.
@PKBook22 @heywoodbill @tconnellyRTE We want to be part of a political union, but when it comes to a Common Market, that means a Common Currency and a Customs Union, that's a double whammy.

We want a free trade area that maintains our Commonwealth ties.
@PKBook22 @heywoodbill @tconnellyRTE When negotiations for that fail, we feel forced to join the Common Market to solve our economic problems.
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It's all they have.
The irony being they voted to live in the past, and now they are permanently stuck in 2016, when we were in the EU.
When someone tell you we need to wait 40 years to see the benefit, ask them what specific milestones are required and when will each of them be achieved.
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"Brexit is not an act of self harm"

The fact people in the UK have to claim this 6 years after the vote suggests that it was, indeed, an act of self harm.
All that democracy of having less votes, and FPTP in a two party system with all those safe seats. Along with a parliamentary system that creates laws further away from the people than in the EU system...

And the funniest to date. Has anyone seen the democratic history of some of the CPTPP countries?

Peru? Vietnam?

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This seems like a good day for it to happen. The only reason the Johnson administration is still in existence is that we don't get long enough to focus on one story before another story occurs and the news cycle moves on.

Like the FCO's handling of Afghanistan...
If it's not corruption it's deception, crime, or incompetence, and it never seems to stop.
And in case you needed to be reminded, the government plan to scrap the institution that found him guilty of this.

Now, where have we seen this before?
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