{"id":37261,"date":"2017-02-21T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37261"},"modified":"2017-02-11T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T18:06:16","slug":"qotd-leaving-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/21\/qotd-leaving-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Leaving the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the 25 years since I began writing seriously here about the European Union and what our membership of it has been doing to Britain, I have learnt (among much else) three things. <\/p>\n<p>The first, which came quite early as I began to understand the real nature of the supranational system of government we now lived under, was that we should one day have to leave it.<\/p>\n<p>A second, as I came to appreciate just how enmeshed we were becoming with that system of government, was that extricating ourselves from it would be far more fiendishly complicated than most people realised.<\/p>\n<p>The third, as I listened and talked to politicians, was how astonishingly little they seemed really to know about how it worked. Having outsourced ever more of our lawmaking and policy to a higher power, it was as if our political class had switched off from ever really trying to understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Booker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/04\/politicians-want-lead-us-eu-dont-seem-have-clue-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Our politicians want to lead us out of the EU, but they don&#8217;t seem to have a clue how it works&#8221;, <em>Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2017-02-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 25 years since I began writing seriously here about the European Union and what our membership of it has been doing to Britain, I have learnt (among much else) three things. The first, which came quite early as I began to understand the real nature of the supranational system of government we now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,84,41],"tags":[337,114],"class_list":["post-37261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-government","category-quotations","tag-eu","tag-separatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9GZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37262,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37261\/revisions\/37262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}