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Samizdata quote of the day – what sovereignty means edition “Sovereignty is not merely the technical possibility of making a one‑off decision. It is the continuing ability to govern yourself: to set and revise your own rules in the light of your own needs. When you adopt the regulatory framework of a foreign power, when commercial realities make reversal prohibitively costly and when you have no seat at the table where the rules are made, you may have exercised a choice at the outset but you have chosen powerless subordination thereafter.”
Steve Baker, former Conservative MP and campaigner for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. He’s unhappy at the machinations of the current Labour government, and I share his annoyance.
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Yes indeed.
However, the previous government did very little with independence – partly because they (the elected government) were “in office, but not in power” – power being with the officials and “experts”, but also because some (SOME – not all) of the elected people themselves (such as the dreadful Prime Minister Theresa May) did not believe in independence – and although they said they accepted the result of the referendum, they did not really accept the result of the referendum.
As for the present elected government – there is no real conflict within it, they all (all the Labour ministers) share the hatred that the officials and “experts” have for both national independence and individual liberty (the latter being dependent upon the former – for an international government would crush liberty, utterly crush liberty), the situation is hopeless, it is truly without hope.