• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I already had. EEA membership wouldn’t entail the massive EU budget contributions, for example. Not would you get as much benefit from the UK’s soft power, or as intertwined an economy.

    I didn’t ignore it three times. I ignored it zero times. It was a point already addressed before you even brought it up in the first place.

    It’s you who hasn’t presented any evidence that EEA would actually be better (and seemingly, the EU disagrees with you btw). All you did was lie and say the UK blocked a lot of stuff when they absolutely didn’t.

    If that’s a sound argument, then surely Brexit was a splendid idea, too – after all, multiple politicians expressed a desire for it!

    False equivelance.

    Brexit was pushed by political opportunists like Farage and Boris, who saw it as a path to power. Boris famously had a letter in support of Remain and a letter in favour of Leave, before deciding that backing Leave would be the best path to becoming PM.

    High up EU politicians aren’t doing this because they think it’ll somehow make them the head of the EU commission or something, they’re doing it because it’s in the interest of the EU.