Quote:Except they were very much represented which, if they do leave the EU, they will not be. However there no guarantee the UK won't have to pay into the EU much the same way Iceland and Norway do. So they're likely going from taxed and represented to taxed but not represented. 

 

I fundamentally disagree with the concept that the UK was REPRESENTED.  There was no elected official from Britain that could propose a new law, or propose the repeal of a new law.  That means that the slave states re-entering the union after loosing the civil war had a greater democratic franchise than the former British Empire that helped shape the modern world.  I don't think that was going to work. 

 

72 times the British opposed a measure in council, 72 times they were overruled.  That's not influence, that's helplessness. 

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