@CC See what you mean about the polls more clearly now. Still don't have enough to agree, but you are definitely closer to the issue than me so you probably know more about the situation in the country.
That video with Andrew Neil was hilarious. I think I'd have passed out from the embarrassment. Some scummy tactics on there. Both sides used scummy tactics. But I'm not sure the video is meant to show anything more than that. I don't it even definitively illustrates that there was a well thought out single position among the leaders of the Brexit movement, let alone the voters?
Agree about the army. Over here in Krautland there's big uproar about them wanting an aircraft carrier. Wether or not the army itself is a good idea is a different matter, the point is that they/we want one.
Regarding interests of EU citizens - the EU is one of several organisations that's meant to protect their interests. Their governments and to a lesser extent the likes of the UN and NATO as. And yes, the EU is probably responsible for regulation within the EU. I'm not sure what you're implying with the question. As for the two year dalay - like I said, it's deplorable if someone did that on purpose just to protect someone's financial interests and heads must fly.
I'll try to take a look at your presentation later today and comment on it, as it's seemingly quite pertinent to these issues.
Again, I don't understand your point about equality. If the trend of more inequality is widespread (is it world wide?) and there are countries that follow this trend but are still pretty good in Europe and even some countries that don't follow it at all in the EU, doesn't that suggest that the EU might not be to blame. Again, this probably ties into me not knowing enough about the Euro, if I get round to it, I'll take a look at what you posted.
The problem with me just taking you at your word is that you're clearly of the opinion that the Euro is "bad". And you dislike the EU. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest all the stuff you posted about it suggests the same. This isn't a dig at you; I doubt any normal person would post something to discredit their opinion when discussing stuff online. So in order to form a comprehensive opinion I'd need to read all the pieces that rebuke the claims made in yours, weed out the sillier ones and post the rest here.
Answering what the EU's exact role and what it actually does in everyday life for everyone of us is very difficult. Which was one of my original points in the original thread - looked from the outside like a lot of people were voting on something where they had pretty much no idea what that something actually does.
Intuitively I would tend do think the EU should help to regulate those German car manufacturer disasters. But they've been discovered and now the responsible parties are going to be punished. Imagine how many of these go unnoticed!
Understand your opinion on refugees better now, cheers. Yes, ideally there should be none but that's not going to happen and yes, your own economic interests should come if not first, quite high up.
Honestly your last point sounds like you just being annoyed at cover ups and ascribing them to the more left leaning nature of the countries in questions's politics these days. That you seemingly think is a consequence of the EU, which is fair enough I suppose.
But at the end of the day it's the people voting for their leadership, no? For example Denmark took in the lowest number of refugees in nine years in 2017. I was under the impression that countries had a large say in how many refugees could come in, which is why some, like the UK, took in so few and some, like Germany, took in a lot more.
I'm not sure what oversexualisation of children really is, I'll look into it. Can imagine why you'd not post about it here though.
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