You know over and above TV's the EU banned the import of Hitachi Magic Wands - that's reason enough to leave right there.
You know over and above TV's the EU banned the import of Hitachi Magic Wands - that's reason enough to leave right there.
Perhaps this old European dog still has a thing or two to teach, then. Be that as it may, we share more things with the US than anyone else, so that statement still stands.
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They should just have made the St. Patrick's Cross go halfway, it'd still be a strong signal and it would be symmetrical. So basically, when you turn it around clockwise, the red band is always at the top in the upper right corner?
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EC releases information about the negotiations. And the thing with international agreements is that they have to be ratified. Which is up to individual member states. Even if it was the most secret agreement ever prior to the signing, it wouldn't be after that. So yeah, you'll have a democratic way of fucking TTIP over. As for EC, they can be disbanded with a vote of no-confidence. Lobby your MEPs.
Yeah, no. Plasma is ahead of LCDs in some areas, behind in others. The gap closed even more after LCDs started using LED backlight. Then there's OLED that competes with both.
I'd be willing to bet most people can't name the EU president let alone their MEP or where to lobby them. In any case one or two people lobbying even if they could would make no difference against the pro EU big pharma, bankers etc lobbiers who have the EU legislators firmly in their pockets.
If you are happy being governed by the big multinational companies and an erosion of worker's rights then you should vote to Remain.
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Oh yes, I so believe that London cares more about Wales than Brussels does >.>
Ahead in most (despite no major advancements in half a decade thanks to the EU), LED backlighting moved LCD up a level but that put it closer to plasma not ahead, and yes OLED does move it up another level and compete with plasma, but when prices start at like £2k it damn well should lol.
The bottom line is had the EU not killed plasma we would have screens that look as good as OLED for half the price. It was a boneheaded mistake on their part, but aside from adding it to their list of mistakes it's hardly a reason to want to leave.
Stay. No sense in giving the morons running our country right now more powers to screw the regular British Joe, the fact they are unironically using regular British Joe to push this is pretty insane to me but I guess most people are pretty dumb.
I'll be voting to leave.
Indeed - I'm not European. I'm British. Europeans are the people who only figured out what democracy was* when we Brits** had kicked the stuffing out of them enough.
*I'll give the Dutch a pass on this.
**Including our Yank cousins. The US was founded on British ideals of liberty after all.
This claim was always rubbish anyway. NATO and the Cold War prevented another European war from breaking out, not the EU.
I'm always suspicious of big, complex trade deals anyway.
"The United Kingdom shall have free trade with [insert country name here]."
Bam. That's all you need for a free trade deal. So long as they meet your own domestic regulations (ie, which apply to both your firms and their firms equally), you just don't need anything else.
You have to remember that the EU is deliberately opaque and anti-democratic, because its founders wanted to avoid giving us ordinary people an effective voice in how they were governed.
*Glances at the rise of nationalist parties across Europe*
I think we can call that one a failure.
It's a classic case of "garbage in, garbage out". The assumptions you make for the models determines whether the result is good or bad.
Besides, we're supposed to trust economic models now?
Bwahahaha...
If by "contribute" you mean "mostly go on welfare, depress wages, and put an even bigger strain on public services that they basically never contribute any money to", then yes they do contribute a lot. If by cultural contributions you include FGM, rape gangs, honour killings, and the erosion of British cultural norms and ideals, then I guess they contribute a lot there too :P .
There is no magic soil, even on this sceptred isle. An illiterate Syrian or Afghan moving to the UK will not suddenly appreciate the Magna Carta or the Glorious Revolution. Heck, he won't even suddenly appreciate the idea of equal rights for women. And statistically, his children are far more likely to be worse integrated than he is (take ISIS: its generally not first generation migrants who support them, or go to fight for them). So you'll forgive me if I'd rather such people stayed well away from my country.
(Left-wing readers may now commence with the ritual name-calling...)
Fair enough, but we could at least use that money to pay off the national debt etc. Or put the money into [insert pet cause here].
You ain't seen real austerity. Real austerity begins with a 10% pay cut for all public servants - as we did in the Great Depression. All Osborne's done is cut the rate at which the government sucks your money out of your wallet. It's like saying "I'm cutting my monthly overdraft from £10k this month to £11k next month instead of £12k - wow I'm really tightening my belt".
The fact that people even think it's austerity is a sign of how effective mostly* left-wing propaganda has been.
*Mostly, because I think a lot in the Tory party are happy to pass off small cuts as big ones, for the sake of political manoeuvring and such.
It comes down to short-term vs long-term. If you're only focused on the short term, then vote for the most profligate party possible, spend all your descendants' money, and party like there's no tomorrow. Similarly, vote to stay in the EU to enjoy the good times now.
Or you could think ahead. Personally, I don't want to see an economic collapse, or for my kids to be born tens of thousands of pounds in debt, and with a crushing tax burden because of government spending that it was physically impossible for them to have a say over. Both of which are likely if you only think about short-term gains/losses.
It's not like we won't be (a) trading well with the EU after we leave, or (b) no longer standing up to Russia. The Germans & other northern Europeans in the EU want to trade with us because we buy all their cars and such, so expect the UK to continue to trade with the EU. Meanwhile, unless Nigel Farage has secretly designed a way to move the British Isles to just off the east coast of the USA, our strategic policies regarding Europe and the world in general will remain unchanged.
First, culture. Second, sovereignty. The economic stuff comes a distant third for me.
I agree. I don't think legislation voting ratios have anything to do with this. The Brexit is ultimately just a reduction to nationalism vs. globalism. That's it. A simple ego thing. The last buckling of the British ego pretending there is still an Empire. Should they lose this vote, they'll have to bury that pride somewhere and finally join the international community as equals. Yes, even with Germany.
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That's why even the work of individual MEPs is transparent and available for public scrutiny. And MEPs are accountable to their constituents. The EC is accountable to the European Parliament. The members of the Council of the European Union is accountable to their governments, national parliaments and their constituents. Look at all that lack of accountability.
looking forward to see brexit win and the Scotts making a second referendum for independance and staying in the EU. Then we will see what "shit hits the fan" means.