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British Politics - We voted for Change and we got Cameron :(
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I love the idea of the EU; I think that a close-knit Europe is a fantastic idea, but I do think its current implementation leaves a lot to be desired
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That said, I should most likely stop becoming so disheartened about the next general elections, as fingers crossed I'll be escaping to the continent and never coming back.
Oh god bongi, yer a man after my own heart. The EU could be so SO much better, and do more good than it already does, but some reforms are DEFINITELY needed.
While I do worry about certain aspects of a loss of sovereignty to Europe, I think the upshot in terms of trade and cultural benefits would be more than worth it
Yeah, I agree. I think the Brits could bring a lot to the table but right now it's kind of one foot in, one foot out and the UK delegation in the Parliament is riddled with idiots like Farrage and Griffin.
It's getting people to vote is the problem. People like that only tend to get in because they realise most people aren't voting and actually manage to get their support base to the polls. It's fucking disappointing as hell
Bridging the gap between the dollar and the Euro has some potential advantages (not that we're yet to see any of them) whereas the inflation of a single currency laid across nations with different economic needs could end up being a bit of a shitstorm
Though I do really like British coinage. Pound coins are such a satisfying weight and size.
Mostly it’d be nice if they changed their image and quit worrying about things like the size and shape of fruits and vegetables, because it detracts from it detracts from their more sensible edicts and makes the EU look a pointless mass of invasive pedants
And we’ve got enough of them in power via regular democratic means as it is
The public elect the two most powerful bodies in the EU, The Council and the Parliament. Also, the Commission is bringing in a "Citizen's Initiative" thing, though I'm not sure how it's going to work. The EU isn't impregnable, it just seems that way because most people don't really understand how it works.
Parliament eventually managed to kill that particular bit of idiocy a week or two ago.
It seems to me that confusion over the whole thing is not something the EU itself is trying to combat, there is a lack of focus on it proportional to the power it currently has. I don't even think the average man on the street even knows who the current EU president is, It all feels a bit underhand.
There's billboards all over Dublin advertising TalkToEU and our papers cover EU matters pretty regularly. The British media always seem to pay more attention to what's going on in Washington than what's going on in Brussels and when the EU actually does appear it's almost always in a negative context. I think the Mail was harping on about how an EU recycling initiative was going to make batteries more expensive last I checked.
Then they were like "Is there an example of separate countries using one currency and having it work well?"
And the answer was "Oh yeah, America did that" The problem is that America also developed a strong federal government, while the EU is still basically just an agreement between very separate countries.
The Economist's European blogger did a good piece about a month ago: A reminder for the EU: America did not create federalism to back the dollar.
I'll be the first to admit I know next to nothing about economics but the line that's been thrown around is that southern european countries can't devalue their way out of trouble this time, they have to actually put their houses in order. So in that respect the Euro has been good for them.
It didn't work out too badly for the United Kingdom.
you know, how the pennies make up part of the sheild and the pound has the entire picture on it, it's cool
problem with the euro is that one side gotta be taken up with the picture of europe and shit
I love making those!
edit: Great minds think alike Nuzak
It is also a huge Fuck You to the design industry as I recall.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/132331/ricky-martin-i-am-a-fortunate-homosexual-man/
TLDR: Ricky Martin is totally fabulous!
It hasn't exactly gone swell for it either
Well they didn't like us sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan and we did that anyway
I enjoyed this
One of my flatmates in my first year in uni used to buy it, and reading it became a sort of morbid obsession
Really? The unification of the constituent countries of Britain under a centralised government lead to one of the farthest reaching empires on Earth. We still massively benefit politically, economically and culturally from that to this day even although the greater empire has been on the wane since the American war for independance. As individuals and a country we enjoy priviledges utterly disproportionate to our relative actual size. Indeed, even although the larger empire shrank a long time ago, we've only really seen our political and economic stature decline since post-WWII.
Maybe? Because it doesn't make much sense to actually mean the United Kingdom.
Edit: Because it's not really the same thing, anyway. Scotland, Ireland, and Wales all used to be countries, but it's not like they function like that anymore. The United Kingdom is basically like the United States in that regard. I mean, technically each state in the US is an independent body, and each one is just tied loosely together by the federal government. But that's not the reality of the situation at all.
The UK is the same way. They're not different sovereign countries loosely bound, they're one country, now.
All three main parties agree on something! To give tax breaks to Games Developers.
Also I missed the debate last night, who came out looking slightly better than the others?
Not really, they are all constituent countries still with their own government and legal system. I can't speak for the US but that's the reality of the situation in the UK and it really actually does work that way. It might not be as apparent in England but the differences have a real effect on the daily lives of people in Scotland. It's not just cosmetic.
Sharpy - according to an after-show audience poll, the lib dem guy was voted most popular.
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I go to a primary school.
there are rich tea biscuits, and tea in paper cups
that is literally how we vote in the westcountry