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It was the UK government who wanted the power limited, also it was never 1,400 watts. Dyson was always a Brexiteer and moved to Singapore for cheap labour and access to Asian markets

Wiltshire and Fermanagh

I stand corrected.

This is not strictly true. The Council of Ministers set the Commission's agenda. National governments would never want or let the President of the commission to be elected as this would give the President a democratic mandate. You could end up with a Nigel Farage or Ken Livingstone as...

Who exactly?

I liked it when prorogue was just what Scooby Doo called the introductory section of a book

And which country was pushing for the enlargement? The UK.

I have copied this from another forum I read, which gives an interesting insight into Project Fear.

Ireland? Really? Where the "Troubles" not a civil war? Is the Irish Civil War of 1922-23 in living memory?

Evidence for this assertion?

Pass the pop corn please.

Until last year I worked in Swindon and was stunned when they voted leave. Both BMW and Honda will leave. I don't know how many people BMW employ but Honda employ over 3,000 directly. How many indirectly?

How will Welsh Hill farmers survive without the EU? https://ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/brexit-prospects-for-uk-beef-and-sheep-meat-trade If you are genuinely interested about divorce bill - https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-divorce-bill/ In a nutshell

In fact HoC can't withdraw article 50. Only the Government can or to be precise one of her Majesty's Ministers. HoC can advise HMG to withdraw and if HMG refuse have a vote of no confidence. HoC is not as all powerful as people think - power is with Government.

It has always been acknowledged by sensible commentators that a No Deal Brexit would seriously hurt the EU, but whatever harm it causes the EU, it will be worse for the UK. Metaphor alert: The EU is a patient having an amputation of the right leg without anaesthetic, we are the leg and keeping...

Upthread discussion regarding freedom of movement (FoM) and the customs union (CU). FoM is one of ther four pillars of the Single Market, nothing to do with the CU. In any scenario people will be able to travel between NI and RoI using the Common Travel Area which covers all of the British...

On keeping our fish, the question is do we really want them? Regardless of the CFP, the issue is that fish in UK waters are the wrong species for the UK market – unless you swap cod & chips for herring & chips. So we need access to EU ports to land our fish (about 40% of UK fish are landed in...

NATO kept us safe from the commies. Not so much from each other.

Goods from UK are in transit to a country (e.g. Korea) who have a trade deal with the EU UK leaves without a deal, therefore EU trade deal with country above no longer applies to UK exporters UK goods pay full WTO tariffs or stuck in limbo.

No, not unless they were UK citizens. https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/eu-referendum/about#who-can-vote-in-the-referendum UK citizens living in the EU could not necessarily vote. Which considering they may lose free healthcare or at worst be deported due to Brexit is pretty unfair.