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...
Signing a trade deal with Vietnam as things are going in that country is not, I think, indefensible, but saying it in the same context as "for those who believe in democracy" does now really work.
Neither does a political process where politicians lied to the people to pervert the democratic process so they could wrestle power from them only to absorb it into the UK's party system.
That doesn't work either.
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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.
I have opinions about this rebuttal of @DavidGauke claiming he: "simply looks at the timeline of what has happened post-Brexit and ignores the broader context of trade policy"
Breaking: MP who campaigned for a year to leave the EU and stay in the Single Market before saying we have to leave the Single Market "and it doesn't exist anyway", has resigned after complaining that the integrity he "holds very dear" had been questioned.
Owen Paterson, seen here complaining about the levels of pesticides set in water had recently been found guilty by the House of Commons Committee on standads.
Paterson claims it was vital to introduce the technology of the company that was paying him money to find substances which had levels "too low for other current testing technologies to detect".