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by ixfo 2007 days ago
We had a veto, rarely used, if we didn't like anything. We were very poor in effectively making use of the powers we had within the EU. Of course, now we have none of them, so the EU can do what it likes without worrying about us or our pesky veto now.
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the veto has been vastly overstated and was all but removed by Lisbon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_E...

also: if it is used the other members use "enhanced co-operation" to bypass the veto, like they did in 2011 when Cameron used his

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/09/david-cameron-...