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Let's make a start
As a member of the EU, the UK has a large number seats in the Parliament, and seats in the Council, being, until recently, one of the most influential and respected nations in the Union. Do you think that (apart from tax-dodging rules in the last few years) the UK has generally got its own way, and found that the directives that it votes for are passed, and the ones it votes against are not? So the UK was mostly "on the winning side."
If your favourite party had any MPs in Westminster, what's the best you could hope for when Bills are debated and voted in Parliament? Is it to mostly be "on the winning side?"
Hmmm.. Guardian here showing an increasing trend for the UK to disagree more and lose more in decisions....
"But on average, the data suggests the UK government has at times had to accept policy outcomes from the EU for which it was not part of the winning majority."
There was a big increase in the level of conflict in the council between 2004-09 and 2009-15.
• The UK government was on the losing side a much higher proportion of times in 2009-15 compared with 2004-09 (2.6% in the former period and 12.3% in the latter).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2015/nov/02/is-uk-winner-or-loser-european-council