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J.G.A. Pocock in the London Review of Books offers this frontal attack on The Paradise Lost of Brexit:

J.G.A. Pocock offers this on Brexit: Vol. 38 No. 14 · 14 July 2016

Profoundly anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, the EU obliges you to leave by the only act it recognises: the referendum, which can be ignored as a snap decision you didn’t really mean. If you are to go ahead, it must be by your own constitutional machinery: crown, parliament and people; election, debate and statute. This will take time and deliberation, which is the way decisions of any magnitude should be taken.

The Scots will come along, or not, deciding to live in their own history, which is not what the global market wants us to do. Avoid further referendums and act for yourselves as you know how to act and be. 

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n14/on-brexit/where-are-we-now

Jean Monnet’s  Steel and Coal Cartel that eventuated, in fact metastasized, into a slap-dash ungovernable political something, as revered by Martin Wolf, shares in the Spirit of Davos’ Collectivism? In the name of a World transformed by benign Technocratic Interventions ? What of those unruly States like Poland?

Headline: How Poland became Europe’s biggest rebel

Sub-headline: Support for the EU remains strong, but the confrontation with

Brussels is prompting a debate on the Polish right about ‘Polexit’

On October 7, from a spartan courtroom in Warsaw, Julia Przylebska read out a verdict that echoed across the whole EU. In a few sentences, the head of Poland’s constitutional court declared that key elements of the union’s law were “not compatible” with her country’s constitution.

The verdict brought to a head years of feuding between Warsaw and Brussels over a controversial overhaul of the Polish judiciary, and the backlash was immediate and sustained. Luxembourg’s foreign minister warned Poland it was “playing with fire”. When Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki joined a fiery debate in the European Parliament this week to defend his government’s actions, MEP after MEP took the floor to lambast him.

“This is the first time ever that a court of a member state finds that the EU treaties are incompatible with the national constitution,” Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, told Morawiecki during the debate. “This ruling calls into question the foundations of the European Union. It is a direct challenge to the unity of the European legal order.”

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https://www.ft.com/content/d59e9054-95ba-4093-b1cf-3ead1bae0982

Monnet’s Cartel, as a possible counter weight to the Soviets, and a would be Pan-Europeanism, that collides with the once ascendent Nationalism, and the revelation of Globalism’s imperatives?

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