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If you leave the EU who are people in your country going to vote for? Most likely, either the right or the left.

Leaving the EU doesn't automatically make a country not right/left/whatever. Even before the EU most countries had the same thing. The UK left and still have left/right/whatever. You need to change a lot more than EU membership status to avoid the whole left/right issue.



It’s funny that those chat censorship laws seems to be mostly at EU level. Very few countries have something similar going on locally.


Probably because they know it's not politically popular. As members of the EU, they can work with their commissioners to bring in unpopular legislation and then blame the eu if anyone complains. The UK used to do this a lot, and I expect other countries do it too.


I don't know if youre trying to imply I said any thing about the censorship law, but all I was pointing out was that leaving the EU doesn't change anything about parent's idea about voting left/right/whatever.


What I'm saying, it looks like those are pushed at EU level seemingly by bureaucratic apparatus regardless of ruling parties. Yet such ideas seem to be nowhere to be found at home, again regardless of ruling parties.

I'm probably wrong, but my gut feeling is that euro bureaucracy is playing it's own game. And it has little in common with democracy, citizen rights and citizen will at large. Infamous Juncker's phrase about how to push through unpopular regulations is the modus operandi of those people.


What I'm saying is why are you commenting it to me? I don't care either way. There's other comments that your reply would fit better under. Trying to drag everyone into an EU good/EU bad discussion is not what everyone wants. I simply stated that leaving the EU doesn't make left/right disappear, which is true. You can argue your separate point to me all you want, but I dont really care.


Centralised government and power is much more dangerous for society, than decentralised nations.

Im not sure why someone in Brusell should vote about regulations for entire Europe.

You cannot imply same rules for entire nations like all are the same. They are not. They have different cultures, different values, different taxes, different wealth, etc...


> You cannot imply same rules for entire nations like all are the same. They are not. They have different cultures, different values, different taxes, different wealth, etc...

I'm not implying anything. I'm stating the fact that partisanship is not only dictated by EU membership. Maybe you're correct, maybe not, I dont really care, but it has nothing to do with my comment. Please try again with someone else who cares as much as you do.


Leaving the EU, however, triggers competition. These small European countries will compete for talent/money/knowledge and that means more freedom and less taxes.

But hey gotta deny the EU is not working even after hitting the wall and your face is dangling from the other side right?


I didn't say anything about it working or not, did I? The only thing I pointed out was that that leaving the EU isn't going to change parent's idea about leaving the EU to avoid voting left or right. Your comment doesn't apply or mean anything to me. I don't live in Europe nor do I follow all their politics enough to have a skin in the game.




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