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    Default Boris Says UK Has Crossed the ‘Brexit Finish Line’, Withdrawal Act Becomes Law

    Congrats to Boris! And congrats to the British folks who supported this for so long.

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    Boris Says UK Has Crossed the ‘Brexit Finish Line’, Withdrawal Act Becomes Law

    The withdrawal agreement bill has been given Royal Assent, meaning it has become law and the UK will officially leave the EU on January 31st, 2020.

    Deputy speaker Nigel Evans read out in the House of Commons on Thursday: “I have to announce to the House in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967 that Her Majesty has signified her Royal Assent to the following act: European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020,” meaning the bill has officially been signed into law.



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    Quote Originally Posted by jimnyc View Post
    Congrats to Boris! And congrats to the British folks who supported this for so long.

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    Boris Says UK Has Crossed the ‘Brexit Finish Line’, Withdrawal Act Becomes Law

    The withdrawal agreement bill has been given Royal Assent, meaning it has become law and the UK will officially leave the EU on January 31st, 2020.

    Deputy speaker Nigel Evans read out in the House of Commons on Thursday: “I have to announce to the House in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967 that Her Majesty has signified her Royal Assent to the following act: European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020,” meaning the bill has officially been signed into law.



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    THANK YOU, JIM !!

    Very appreciated.

    It's been a long, hard (ridiculously so) road to get to this point .. but at least, we have.

    It's also been an instructive road. We've seen our 'Liberal' Democrat Party, take a line which said they'd crush Brexit if they ever gained the electoral power to do so (& to hell with the democratic decision, and all those voters who were a part of it). We had the Labour Party, who in their 2017 election manifesto said they were committed to respecting the Referendum vote, but did all they could since that time to kill off any and all progress towards seeing it enacted (saying that any Brexit had to have a deal attached ... then they voted against every deal in sight).

    The forces of the Left, here .. even the most 'moderate' Left .. defied our electorate. All were given the caning of their lives in the December election, giving Boris a landslide victory ! Jo Swinson, leader of the LibDems, was even thrown out of her local constituency, the electorate there replacing her with a rival SNP candidate.

    Our Conservatives respected democratic process, and the electorate. Forces from the Left, even the supposed 'moderate' Left, showed contempt for it.

    DEMOCRACY WON OUT .. THOSE ACTING TO STALL, OR CRUSH IT, WERE DULY PUNISHED ....

    .. and so, today, I'm proud of our People.

    We've still got some negotiating to do, to see what our future trading relationship with EU countries will be, and ... I've no doubt that we'll get yet more 'shabby dealings' from them in the coming year. More wasted time ... more of being told what cannot be allowed, with scant all actually decided. Time will tell.

    I look forward to our future trading relationship with America !
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    It sounds like a messy divorce where the couple work out the details and sign the papers, but the judge doesn't want to grant the decree.
    @Drummond, in your mind, what is the main reason so many politicians are fighting getting BREXIT done? I tend to see money changing hands as the reason for almost all political bad behavior, but I don't know really know much about the EU.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    It sounds like a messy divorce where the couple work out the details and sign the papers, but the judge doesn't want to grant the decree.

    Drummond, in your mind, what is the main reason so many politicians are fighting getting BREXIT done? I tend to see money changing hands as the reason for almost all political bad behavior, but I don't know really know much about the EU.
    I think it's more about power, where money is always involved too. EU leadership feels they are a moral counter to the evil, but wealthy and productive US.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    It sounds like a messy divorce where the couple work out the details and sign the papers, but the judge doesn't want to grant the decree.
    @Drummond, in your mind, what is the main reason so many politicians are fighting getting BREXIT done? I tend to see money changing hands as the reason for almost all political bad behavior, but I don't know really know much about the EU.
    Kathianne makes good points. The EU does see itself as a rival 'power' to the US ... and anti-Trump-ism plays its part, too.

    Identify and list those who've voiced any opposition to Brexit in the British Establishment, then identify and list those who've worked so hard, and so unashamedly, to actively derail Brexit, and have had no interest in heeding the Referendum vote. I'd challenge anyone to spot differences between the two lists.

    Brexit exists as the expression of those who want the UK to determine its own fate, which means that its people actively determine that fate. Opposition to Brexit is fundamentally an expression of denial of any control of that fate, and instead, abdication of it in favour of, outright deference to, EU rule.

    There's the dimension of the psychology of those who have defied the Will of the People, as expressed in the 2016 Referendum result, that it's fundamental to consider. Their brand of politics is one which is fundamentally geared to leading people, not listening and being led BY them. The EU functions to rule its Member States .. the European Parliament was created and functions for precisely that purpose. Power flowing from the top down, not from grassroots to Establishment entities, is the 'name of the game' to these people.

    Bear in mind that the EU is a mutated entity ... originally just the EEC, a trading confederation, lacking any power-wielding machinery, such as a Parliament. The European Parliament, to say nothing of the European Court of Human Rights, each evolved as entities filling what was originally a power-vacuum. Wielding power, where before, that didn't happen, is what they're for.

    Applying power is the whole point.
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    Unfortunately, expanding power seems to be the goal for almost anyone who tastes it’s fruits.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Unfortunately, expanding power seems to be the goal for almost anyone who tastes it’s fruits.
    Basically true, unfortunately. Even so ... what makes a Socialist / 'Leftie' distinctly bad in that context is the simple fact that the creed itself is designed for the mass application of power. Possibly there are those who'd argue otherwise; nonetheless, you can't apply the creed to any society in any other way.

    An individual tempted to expand power is one corrupted by that power. But, a Socialist will work towards that as a reality, thinking it to be a self-meriting process. That's what makes Socialist power-mongers especially dangerous, and especially deserving of the utmost resistance to what they seek, and what they do.
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    Default ... Freedom !!!! ...

    American site or not ... I couldn't let this go unmarked here.

    Just 30 minutes ago, as I type, the UK finally, officially, LEFT THE EU !!

    So, finally, after all that our Left did to defy our electorate, after all their disgusting vandalism, we've nonetheless rid ourselves of the EU's meddling in our affairs. Now, we can trade as WE choose. Now, we have all the control over our own borders that we could want, without EU diktat depriving us of this basic right.

    Our laws will, now, be our own ... and we won't have law after law dreamed up in the EU Parliament foisted upon us, with our being under contractural imperative to implement them into our own legal system.

    We are now, OUR OWN PEOPLE, governing OURSELVES.

    I'm logging off now ... I'm celebrating !!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
    American site or not ... I couldn't let this go unmarked here.

    Just 30 minutes ago, as I type, the UK finally, officially, LEFT THE EU !!

    So, finally, after all that our Left did to defy our electorate, after all their disgusting vandalism, we've nonetheless rid ourselves of the EU's meddling in our affairs. Now, we can trade as WE choose. Now, we have all the control over our own borders that we could want, without EU diktat depriving us of this basic right.

    Our laws will, now, be our own ... and we won't have law after law dreamed up in the EU Parliament foisted upon us, with our being under contractural imperative to implement them into our own legal system.

    We are now, OUR OWN PEOPLE, governing OURSELVES.

    I'm logging off now ... I'm celebrating !!!
    My great friend, allow me to celebrate with you. This is truly a magnificent cause for celebration.
    Now, if only Britain would correctly, and firmly address its dire and tragically serious muslim problem.
    For such is key to its very survival...-Tyr
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
    American site or not ... I couldn't let this go unmarked here.

    Just 30 minutes ago, as I type, the UK finally, officially, LEFT THE EU !!

    So, finally, after all that our Left did to defy our electorate, after all their disgusting vandalism, we've nonetheless rid ourselves of the EU's meddling in our affairs. Now, we can trade as WE choose. Now, we have all the control over our own borders that we could want, without EU diktat depriving us of this basic right.

    Our laws will, now, be our own ... and we won't have law after law dreamed up in the EU Parliament foisted upon us, with our being under contractural imperative to implement them into our own legal system.

    We are now, OUR OWN PEOPLE, governing OURSELVES.

    I'm logging off now ... I'm celebrating !!!

    Now hoping the people want to keep themselves free! Congratulations Drummond and UK!


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    Congratulations Drummond and the U.K.! It’s great!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
    American site or not ... I couldn't let this go unmarked here.

    Just 30 minutes ago, as I type, the UK finally, officially, LEFT THE EU !!

    So, finally, after all that our Left did to defy our electorate, after all their disgusting vandalism, we've nonetheless rid ourselves of the EU's meddling in our affairs. Now, we can trade as WE choose. Now, we have all the control over our own borders that we could want, without EU diktat depriving us of this basic right.

    Our laws will, now, be our own ... and we won't have law after law dreamed up in the EU Parliament foisted upon us, with our being under contractural imperative to implement them into our own legal system.

    We are now, OUR OWN PEOPLE, governing OURSELVES.

    I'm logging off now ... I'm celebrating !!!
    I hope you had a great celebration, my friend. What a great day for Britain.

    Score one for a sovereign nation's people seeking independence, and zero for the globalist Illuminati trash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    My great friend, allow me to celebrate with you. This is truly a magnificent cause for celebration.
    Now, if only Britain would correctly, and firmly address its dire and tragically serious muslim problem.
    For such is key to its very survival...-Tyr
    Very much appreciated, Tyr ... you are a great friend to have.

    We're now in a transition period, set to end in December this year ... its purpose being to give us something of a breather, so that our transition to a fully standalone nation fully in control of all its trade can be properly implemented. Until now, for example, the EU stopped us from freely entering into trade deals with America. Now, at long last, we CAN do this, as WE choose.

    Needless to say, Jeremy Corbyn is trying to throw spanners at American trade agreements .... the BBC interviewed him last night when he did that (again).

    Being divorced from the EU can't but help us with our Muslim problem, Tyr .. I'm thinking in particular not only about EU laws which helped restrict our own judicial position, but the European Court of 'Human Rights', which has been known to reach judgments favouring terrorist defendants in cases brought before it !! Being shot of the EU should put paid to their future interference.

    Add that to what the future holds for us in terms of terrorist attacks ... and 'PC' equivocations should die a death, to be replaced with a greater patriotic need to defend against a savage aggressor. It'll take time ... BUT ... attitudes should change, and we'll start to address our problem from the enlightened standpoint of finally SEEING it as one !!!

    The EU has much to answer for. Being rid of them will be our salvation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    I hope you had a great celebration, my friend. What a great day for Britain.
    I haven't woken up with a hangover in years. Now .......

    Score one for a sovereign nation's people seeking independence, and zero for the globalist Illuminati trash.
    Perfectly put ! I can't 'better' that. And Tyr makes an important point ... with our becoming more and ever more distanced from EU unity, so we can properly evolve our worldview. Seeing the great threat posed by Muslims actually AS one, is something we can do without having to look over our shoulders all the time.

    We decide for ourselves, now, whether or not we want to be slaves to PC blindness, rather than having that blindness inflicted upon us, as EU law has ensured happened. This is long overdue !!
    It's That Bloody Foreigner Again !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drummond View Post
    I haven't woken up with a hangover in years. Now .......



    Perfectly put ! I can't 'better' that. And Tyr makes an important point ... with our becoming more and ever more distanced from EU unity, so we can properly evolve our worldview. Seeing the great threat posed by Muslims actually AS one, is something we can do without having to look over our shoulders all the time.

    We decide for ourselves, now, whether or not we want to be slaves to PC blindness, rather than having that blindness inflicted upon us, as EU law has ensured happened. This is long overdue !!
    Now... GET YOUR GUNS BACK!

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