EU & Brexit Bunker

[PurplePenguin]

There's something special here about the language Dunt uses in his post about the Pope. And you won't be confused why I've put this here... not sure I'd quite phrase it like that, but...

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The most alarming thing is the way that some people actually believe this. The same people will become outraged over the idea of the UK deporting refugees to Rwanda whilst wildly cheering when the EU comes up with a plan to deport refugees to.. Rwanda. It must be a good idea when the EU does it.

 

[C R]

The most alarming thing is the way that some people actually believe this. The same people will become outraged over the idea of the UK deporting refugees to Rwanda whilst wildly cheering when the EU comes up with a plan to deport refugees to.. Rwanda. It must be a good idea when the EU does it.

No, it isn't a good idea when the EU does it, and many people in the EU consider it to be fundamentally against the idea of the european project.

 

[PurplePenguin]

No, it isn't a good idea when the EU does it, and many people in the EU consider it to be fundamentally against the idea of the european project.

How will they vote to reverse the proposal from the gift to humanity?

 

[briantrumpet]

The most alarming thing is the way that some people actually believe this. The same people will become outraged over the idea of the UK deporting refugees to Rwanda whilst wildly cheering when the EU comes up with a plan to deport refugees to.. Rwanda. It must be a good idea when the EU does it.

Not cheering either, though I'm sure Farage is. Strange times.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Not cheering either, though I'm sure Farage is. Strange times.

The problem is that you easily voted out the lot that brought it in in the UK and the scheme was abandoned. It's quite a lot harder to undo it at an EU level especially when some people think the EU is a gift to humanity.

 

[briantrumpet]

The problem is that you easily voted out the lot that brought it in in the UK and the scheme was abandoned. It's quite a lot harder to undo it at an EU level especially when some people think the EU is a gift to humanity.

Shame we can't influence that at all now.

 

[Pblakeney]

Shame we can't influence that at all now.

We chose to let them take control.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Shame we can't influence that at all now.

The UK should join the EU to save them from themselves?

 

[briantrumpet]

The UK should join the EU to save them from themselves?

Have you ever joined something that you've not 100% agreed with? Like a board of governors of a school, for instance, if you think you can contribute something and thereby improve it? Just a random example, obvs.

 

[Psamathe]

Have you ever joined something that you've not 100% agreed with? Like a board of governors of a school, for instance, if you think you can contribute something and thereby improve it? Just a random example, obvs.

Personally, sometimes I have, sometimes I've declined. One important consideration is when you disagree with a policy whether you are forced to support the decision in public. eg I could never be a Cabinet Minister as I there would be decisions I disagree with and I'd never be prepared to do the "collective responsibility", never publicly defend something I (strongly) disagreed with.