Re: The long-awaited EU battery-lifetime standards kick in on June 20, 2025

On 2025-05-27 15:28, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

 Didn't we regain independence from the Socialist Republic of Europeland?

No, because ...
   1)  The EU, being one of the biggest and most influential trading blocks in the world, still has a large influence on the standards of the goods that we buy in the rest of the world; the only difference now is that we do not get input into their standards.
... and anyway ...
   2)  They were never a socialist republic  -  why do you think all those people in countries that formerly were part of the USSR, a real Socialist Republic, have been so keen to join the EU and NATO?
   3)  Geographically we are still exactly where we were, and therefore still do most of our trade with the EU, only now less advantageously than before.
   4)  Recent attempts by Russia to swing elections in Europe in favour of pro-Russia candidates show why at the time of the Brexit vote there were so many lies about the EU being spread through social media which, unfortunately for us, successfully alienated enough of the stupider part of our electorate to vote against their own best interests.
   5) Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc ...
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