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Thread #160890   Message #3819297
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-Nov-16 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit again
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit again
From the ITV website.

Official EU voting records show that the British government has voted 'No' to laws passed at EU level on 56 occasions, abstained 70 times, and voted 'Yes' 2,466 times since 1999.

In other words, UK ministers were on the "winning side" 95% of the time, abstained 3% of the time, and were on the losing side 2%.

This is counting votes in the EU Council of Ministers, which passes most EU laws jointly with the European Parliament.


("Being on tbe losing side" has increased in frequency since we got a bunch of Eurosceptics in power in 2010).

The EU is a collaboration of 28 states. I reckon that record reflects a good deal of harmony. There are people here railing against the EU who don't care much for some of our own domestic laws that have nothing to do with the EU, such as the one making referendums advisory only. 😂😂😂