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Not sure I read you right, but are you saying you don't get my opinion, or the poitics situation as is?
I do think Corbyn is a breath of fresh air, a bit, but his politics are infantile and poorly thought through. IMO. He also appears riduculously naive when it comes to foreign policy. Tbh from what I have seen of him, the bloke is a fool.
He appears to be living in some sutdent union utopia dislocated from the real world.
I don't really have a problem with identikit politics. The public seem to like the middle ground. What I don't like are the (apparently) massively out of touch stiffs who are MPs. They arent real people, they don't seem to have a clue about what most people are like.
Hence we get facile patronising soundbites like "hard working families" etc.
What I am getting at is politics needs more people like the Archbishop of Canterbury. Whilst I totally despise organised religion, this fella has lived life and so when he speaks, he speaks with real life authority - based on experience, not text book or university debating school rhetoric.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The EU didn't invent the bedroom tax, the EU doesn't want us to force genuinely disabled or terminally ill people back to work.
Having a bit of "sovereignty" removed is some people's only hope in this country.
See, this is the kind of thing that gives me pause because its very easy to spin as a stupid idea, brussels bureaucrats stealing all our fun ect. but I tend to think one of the primary purposes of government is to prevent tragedy of the commons situations. High powered electrics like kettles are a massive drain on the power grid (particularly as they often tend to be switched on en masse- eg at the end of a football match) so its an area where *well thought out* regulation would make sense.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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If that was all there was then they would have just published it to stop the groundless rumours. The reason that they haven't published it is because they know that it would be a red rag to a bull before the referendum.
They have let this one slip out though:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/25/netflix-and-amazon-must-guarantee-20-of-content-is-european
More red tape. How are they going to guarantee that it will happen? They will create watchdogs at the tax payers expense to monitor it. As the article says, the providers will get around it anyway. They will just commission lots of cheap rubbish to fill the quota of European origin content.
The problem is that it's a symptom of the EU culture and bureaucracy that tries to justify its existence.
Seeing as someone else has already compared the two referenda: the hypocrisy from the likes of Boris Johnson with regards their differing attitudes to Scottish Independence and the EU is quite simply staggering. Its also amusing to see the Leavers complaining about "scaremongering" when you see some of the stuff they came out with during the independence referendum.
Scotland cedes far, far more of its sovereignty to the United Kingdom and English/Welsh/N.Irish voters than the UK does to the EU, but Johnson and many other of the high profile "leave" campaigners were very vocal that Scotland was very much "better together". Its amusing/depressing/ironic/whatever to see them completely about turn with regards sovereignty and the benefits of unions now. There's also similarly ironic about turns from many Scottish nationalists, although their flip-flopping isn't quite as ridiculous given the relative levels of sovereignty in question.
Now it's an anti-UKIP vehicle and to lance the political EU-boil in the conservative party.
And yes Boris is an opportunistic little shit - in January he was pouring scorn on the Brexiters - IMHO this is the start of his leadership bid post Cameron
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Edit: Quote not showing properly. My response starts after this:
If that was all there was then they would have just published it to stop the groundless rumours. The reason that they haven't published it is because they know that it would be a red rag to a bull before the referendum.
They have let this one slip out though:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/25/netflix-and-amazon-must-guarantee-20-of-content-is-european
More red tape. How are they going to guarantee that it will happen? They will create watchdogs at the tax payers expense to monitor it. As the article says, the providers will get around it anyway. They will just commission lots of cheap rubbish to fill the quota of European origin content.
The problem is that it's a symptom of the EU culture and bureaucracy that tries to justify its existence.
In theory it's a very good thing. It's a good thing to try and prevent the US from having a monopoly on TV and film.
Is sovereignty a good thing or a bad thing ?
You are talking about something that has effectively been one country for hundreds of years splitting apart. It's a little different from what was given way in the Lisbon treaty which only came into force 7 years ago against the wishes of the population when Brown refused us a referendum.
The problem is that there needs to be another round of treaty negotiations for the changes that the Eurozone will need to make it work. We have been promised a referendum on any future giving up of sovereignty. Even if Project Fear scares people into voting to stay this time, I can't see any future changes being ratified. This will bring about a major EU crisis as all the countries have to ratify a new treaty, and other countries will refuse to ratify something that will satisfy us. At that point things will get ugly and we will possibly end up leaving anyway.
The amount of control that the UK and UK voters has over its own affairs as part of the EU is huge in comparison to the amount of control that Scottish voters have over their own affairs as part of the UK.
Yet apparently Scotland voting for self determination was a dreadful idea whereas the UK giving up a really tiny set of powers in comparison is completely unconscionable. It's bizarre.