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Very good philosophical comments and very accurate indeed. May I add a brief comment re the difference between the EU and the UK. IMO the former is about sharing sovereignty. Whereas the core principle of the latter, the UK, is absolute sovereignty - an imperial form of rule. Enter the routines of Britain's Westminster govt and it is like entering a parallel universe, one in which "absolute sovereignty" generates the logic of legitimacy. It may seem "abstract", such is the impoverished state of Anglo-Britain. In fact it is a reality! The consequence of this state of affairs is dire. The UK is an old multi-national uncodified entity. An arrangement that cannot but feel threatened within a larger, younger constitutionalising entity like the EU. The reckless arrogance of this current PM doesn't just emanate from a rarefied upbringing but from this consciousness of absolute sovereignty. This outlook has been boosted/amplified by the rhetoric of "Global Britain" and "Britannia Unleashed" even as fish lie rotting, 100,000+ Brit people die, endemic corruption is exposed and industries collapse. The idea of cleaving to this madness is untenable and indefensible. One would have to be pathological to do so in these circumstances. Re the Scottish position in the face of all this madness and some factions of the independence movement up here saying we are powerless and impotent in the face of such a antagonistic leader of the Brit govt, I don't think this is the case at all - the situation and the dynamic is changing in lotsa different and imaginative ways that are akin to said indy movement.