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Brevity favours the liar

EU Referendum: deconstructs the seventh FOC Myth “Qualified Majority Voting hands power to Brussels”

Once again, however, we are not dealing with facts, but lies. National governments do not make the decisions. As the FCO says, the Council does… in this case the Council of Ministers.

What the FCO is doing is eliding the two, but the Council is an EU institution, bound by the rules of the constitution, acting within the framework of EU law and subject to the European Court of Justice.
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“Now, herein lies the problem. The assertions are easily made. Their deconstruction has taken a considerable volume of text. Brevity, in this instance, favours the liar”
EU Referendum:

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By Ken
On February 14, 2005
At 8:15 am
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