David Hansen gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

If, for the sake of argument, one accepts the claim that the UK is a
country then by the argument above it cannot be a country. While laws
governing the UK are passed in Belgium the UK cannot be a country.

Just as well they aren't, eh?

EU directives are approved and passed into UK law by Westminster. Yes,
UK law. England, Wales, NI _and_ Scotland.

Nice try.

Indeed. Nice tries often do introduce facts to the debate.

However, I already knew the details.

Ah. My apologies. I didn't realise you were deliberately talking
********. I assumed you did it accidentally.

It is not politically correct to call laws made by the EU laws

ITYM "It is not accurate".

and there is a pretence that they are optional.

You may wish to refresh yourself on the copyright & software patents
directive from a few years ago, to name but one.

Must try better. 1/10.

You really, really must.