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2016-06-26, 06:56 | Link #204 | |
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RIP Boaty McBoatface.
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2016-06-26, 07:19 | Link #205 | |
I disagree with you all.
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2016-06-26, 07:19 | Link #206 | |
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Pure childishness.
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2016-06-26, 09:02 | Link #208 | |
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/second-ref...111458194.html However as everyone knew from the petition put up after the riots and looting a few years ago nothing on the UK gov website will ever be heard. |
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2016-06-26, 10:30 | Link #211 |
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Likely very painful, but I think it will backfire in there faces. The heavy handed approach is what gave the Remain camp so little to work with besides fear, and that one of the reasons they lost. If David had come back with something that could be called a carrot, Remain would have almost certainly won.
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2016-06-26, 10:36 | Link #212 | |
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2016-06-26, 11:07 | Link #213 | |
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There are 27 EU nations who can veto a future trade deal between the UK and the EU, each will ask for some form of compensation. The question is whether the UK is willing and able to pay that price. |
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2016-06-26, 12:58 | Link #214 |
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I haven't been following the thread properly but I think I should point out Norway and their relationship with the EU. Like the British seem to want, Norway is out of the EU but it has trade deals with the union for free exchange of goods. They are also a part of the Schengen Area, something the UK is not, and they allow freedom of movement of workers as well so there's another thing down. They also have to comply with quite a lot of EU legislation to take part in said common market and yet they are denied a right to vote on whatever decisions the EU makes.
I've also seen this number floated around but I'm not sure of its source so take it with a grain of salt. Apparently Norway pays to the EU, per capita, about 85% of what the UK currently does to have access to said common market. As someone who considers himself European I'm saddened that the monetary integration we walked towards as ended up empowering the isolationists and is growingly forcing public opinion away from peaceful cooperation to cynic distrust amongst European nations. The UE is the single largest experiment in peace ever designed in our written history but, like others have said, I'll hardly miss the British after having them threaten to leave virtually every election cycle and having to give them so many concessions that ultimately ended up being for naught. Hopefully European politicians can take some time to think and realize that they were the ones that created the current distrust of European institutions. I still believe in the idea of the European Union of 1993 and hope we can get back to that soon for the sake of not only my poor strugling country but also all other European nations.
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2016-06-26, 13:19 | Link #215 | ||
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Let's be honest the UK was conned into the EU, the political union there is no else way to say it. They voted for a single market, and as time went one the true horror showed itself, those who voted back then got angry and got ignored until now. The old people who voted leave and voted back than also finally got their voice heard. Good on them. EU got stupid the moment it's top leaders admitted to creating a united states of europe. What fools. Quote:
Though I do hope this would teach those who voted leave as a protest voted or treated the ref as a game. To take their votes seriously and that each one matters. |
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2016-06-26, 13:33 | Link #216 | |
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Greece did cause its own financial problems. But the fact is if they had been able to devaluate their currency they would have been fine. But being forced to be humiliated by Germany over a whole year simply makes the entire EU a hostile place. If EU was truly interested in greater integration then they should have cut Greece a break. But instead they played hardball and got what they wanted, kicking the ball down the road, but also massively damaged the image of the EU and makes everyone reconsider what it means to be in Greece's shoes.
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2016-06-26, 13:43 | Link #217 | |
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It should be focusing on communication and finding common ground for its members. People who talk with each other about there troubles and solutions, are more likely to find solutions -together-, even if there no 'strongman' telling them too or else. Such a method will take much longer to create a single state, but have far firmer foundations. |
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2016-06-26, 13:59 | Link #219 | |
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Instead, EU decided to go hostile. Instead of treating Greece like a member of one's own family who neded help, EU treat Greece like a tenant. EU decided to suddenly behave as if every nation in the EU is in it for itself, thus unravelling the entire argument about greater integration. I am not saying EU did the wrong thing. EU has the right to do this. It is just that the decision permanently harmed the prospect of greater integration, perhaps forever. Germany has approved of the idea of screwing any of its own member nations if they felt like it, instead of helping each other like what a single nation would have done. It is what they sowed, and they will reap the result.
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It is, I suppose, possible your own leaders conned you. But I have as little sympathy for the 70s' voters as I do for last Thursday's. (OK, maybe a bit more. We are in the information age now.) Quote:
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