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No one seems to understand sovereignty. When you were walking through the EU only channel at Spanish customs you were exercising British sovereignty (because you had a personal legal right to do so.)
By losing that right you did not lose sovereignty, by leaving the EU we chose to exercise sovereignty differently. It works the other way too.
We had the right to vote on, object to and in many cases veto or opt out of EU laws. That was an exercise of sovereignty. We will no longer be able to do that.
Sovereignty is NOT about whether we make our own laws or control who comes into our country or fishes in our territorial waters. Sovereignty is not about the HOW we do things but about how we CHOOSE how we do them.
This distinction is important and not just a lawyer’s conceit. It goes without saying that we never lost any sovereignty as a result of membership of the EU, we had exercised our sovereignty to choose how things happened (and made a different choice when we decided to leave.)
It’s important to understand sovereignty in this way. This is about how we choose not what we choose. Sadly, Parliament which is the means by which we exercise those choices doesn’t work properly. 44% of the votes gives the Government all of the sovereignty (the right to choose.)
Until you start to resolve that problem then talk of sovereignty (and how it’s exercised) is all rather stupid. I want to take back control of how we choose who decides our laws, borders and fisheries rules. It has nothing to do with Brexit but with a fair electoral system.
