Quote Originally Posted by phonicsmonkey View Post
As someone said above if the fiscal rules are agreed to and then not followed what happens? If the answer is that the government has the option to leave the EU and break the treaty then it is still sovereign no matter what it has agreed to in the pact.
If I'm reading you correctly, you're saying that Britain would not be handing over it's sovereignty because it can just ignore the law. Is that really any better? If you sign something because you think it's unenforceable, what do you do if it becomes enforceable in the future? Or what if it's not clear if it's enforceable? In fact, this is the same logic that the south used to justify seceding from the US and which started the Civil War.