And equalizing (or trying to) so many varied countries with radically different social, political, economic and financial structures is never going to work well. Some will always be coming out ahead and some falling behind. Countries ought to be competing with each other for the best immigrants, for business, for the best educators and workers and to deliver the most productive and efficient framework of laws to their citizens.That won't work in today's global economy. I see you are from the US. For a moment imagine each state will have it's own language, currency and radically different regulations. How easy would it be to trade between those states and how competitive would each state be compared to China or India?
Europe used to be that patchwork of countries, languages and currencies about 2 to 3 decades ago. Sometimes you need to team up to keep up with the competition.
The news that Jo Cox MP has been murdered
Relly? and american critical thinking is to actually vote for Trump?
Really? and american critical thinking is to actually vote for Trump?
The news that Jo Cox MP has been murdered
Jo Cox's first speech in parliament was about the benefits of immigration and integration.
I'm not surprised someone finally snapped, Labour has been talking down to the working class for a decade.
Relly? and american critical thinking is to actually vote for Trump?He is a far better choice than the alternative. First of all, he's a proven disrupter. The status quo won't survive. That's not entirely a bad thing. Many foreign leaders have already made their opinions known so we know where to cut off funding.
Really? and american critical thinking is to actually vote for Trump?
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So she had been specifically targeted in Britain First and similar publications then?
One may argue with Trump's methods, but self-preservation is only ingored by non-thinkers.
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The media has two faces on this, you can't use the word "muslim" in a Daily Mail comment because they censor all the words that relate to the issue. They pretend to have a sympathetic agenda, but all they actually publish are click bait articles designed to manipulate their readers into thinking they are on the same side.
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Hence Brexit, nobody has a clue about the financial implications, this is all just a knee jerk reaction to Merkel losing the plot and destroying Germany.
That won't work in today's global economy. I see you are from the US. For a moment imagine each state will have it's own language, currency and radically different regulations. How easy would it be to trade between those states and how competitive would each state be compared to China or India?
Europe used to be that patchwork of countries, languages and currencies about 2 to 3 decades ago. Sometimes you need to team up to keep up with the competition.
Misconceptions of the british population about the EU
Left column: What the british think Right colum: reality
Percentage of EU immigrants dat are part of the british population
15% 5%
Percentage of the britisch childsupport being paid to children in the EU
8% 0,3%
Percentage of the budget spent on the EU civil service (bureaucracy if you like)
27% 6%
Participation (share) of the EU in the total investments in Great Brittain
30% 48%
I don't normally give Polly Toynbee much time but I think that she hit the right note in this article The mood is is ugly, and an MP is dead. The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
I don't normally give Polly Toynbee much time but I think that she hit the right note in this article The mood is is ugly, and an MP is dead. The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
I'll give her time - but I don't always agree with her. In this case we both think she is right
This whole febrile atmosphere was also descibed as Britain is in the midst of a working-class revolt . Something similar is happening in the US.
The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
what race card would that be exactly?
The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
Errrr, and what race card would that be exactly
Quotewhat race card would that be exactly?
It is racist to enforce the laws of the nation;
It is racist to hold elected officials to the laws of the nation;
It is racist to want to treat everyone equally;
It is racist to want to just everyone on their own characters.
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If MLK were a live today and said what he said about having a dream, he would be labeled a racist too:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
We are a deeply racist country not because of the people but because of the policies our politicians have put in place that explicitly and forcibly judge each of us on the color of our skins, or our body parts for that matter.
The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
Errrr, and what race card would that be exactly? From where I'm sitting, remain supporters have been repeatedly accusing a very large proportion of the electorate of being racist just because they have a different opinion to them on whether the UK should be in or out of the EU. It cheapens what racism is, and degrades the gravity of instances of real racism. Accusing someone you don't agree with by calling them a racist is like using the old loaded question "when did you stop beating your wife?", it's a lazy way to shut people up because you don't want to enter into reasoned debate.
Just to be clear, there is a very big difference between saying I'd rather not be in the EU and being a racist.
Edit: I agree yesterday's Farage poster is unacceptable, but he is not the Leave campaign on his own. I can also come up with plenty of other nonsense on both sides too.
The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
Errrr, and what race card would that be exactly? From where I'm sitting, remain supporters have been repeatedly accusing a very large proportion of the electorate of being racist just because they have a different opinion to them on whether the UK should be in or out of the EU. It cheapens what racism is, and degrades the gravity of instances of real racism. Accusing someone you don't agree with by calling them a racist is like using the old loaded question "when did you stop beating your wife?", it's a lazy way to shut people up because you don't want to enter into reasoned debate.
Just to be clear, there is a very big difference between saying I'd rather not be in the EU and being a racist.
Edit: I agree yesterday's Farage poster is unacceptable, but he is not the Leave campaign on his own. I can also come up with plenty of other nonsense on both sides too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/suspected-killer-of-british-lawmaker-jo-cox-ties-neo-nazi-ties-group-says/2016/06/17/2067ea0a-33ef-11e6-ab9d-1da2b0f24f93_story.html
The swedish hope-that-Britton leaves party has it roots in Natzi culture!
As far as im concerned fascism , communism, natzism is all the same brown brain shit, same smell just slightly different color!
The perp had known mental problems. It is exceptionally lazy and unhelpful to assume that all those who vote in a certain way in this referendum share the same deranged ideology.
In addition, there is as yet no official connection drawn between the acts of this nutter and the Brexit campaigns, and much as it is easy to draw conclusions from hearsay, I suggest that it should be treated as that.