Cannydc wrote:jra wrote:Cannydc wrote:calitom wrote:UK votes for Brexit but the true nature of EU domination and control of the UK govt has become evident since Brexit is being blocked,delayed,watered down by the govt slaves of the unelected EU.
So what is happening after the Brexit vote proves the need for Brexit.
Slaves are the last ones to realize they are slaves.Those who at least realize they are slaves voted to Brexit.
Keep screaming and yelling about the 'disaster ' that will happen if you leave your captors.
Still reading your comics for info, I see.
Brexit has not been delayed, we have had a defined leaving date for ages.
The EU is a group of 28 countries - it isn't elected, obviously.
But the members of the EU parliament (where laws and standards are passed) certainly are.What has happened post-Brexit vote has defined EXACTLY why it should never have happened - from the top to the bottom of all growth charts in 2 short years.
As for us being 'slaves'....you are barmy.
You sure. I didn't get to vote on EU parliament members from outside the UK. So, from my point of view, and the UK for that matter, they are unelected.
I got to vote for my local MP in the general election in Luton (e.g. Gavin Shulker). I don't remember receiving any forms from any other EU member states. So again, unelected IMO.
Untrue.
The EU election paperwork (for proxy or postal voting) is sent in exactly the same method as per a GE or local council elections. They are every 5 years, and in 2014 coincided with council elections on 22.5.2014.
If you didn't get papers, you weren't registered.
As for UK 'influence' - we will have less than nil if we crash out of the EU with no deal and don't pay our legally contracted bills. We are members of so many joint EU projects - medicine, atomic, education, GPS, security etc.... losing them will cost us dearly, much more than a few fish which will be gone in a few years anyway as UK fishermen have no quotas to respect.
A few fish. You are talking about millions of tonnes, either caught inside 'our' waters by other EU member states or having to be dumped overboard because of EU fishing quotas becoming seagull and crab food.
Yes, I get all the voting forms, but it's for the UK MEP not any other EU MEPs, so I don't get a voting choice in that matter. I don't mind our MPs making decisions for the UK, as at least they are acting on the UK's behalf, but I have a problem with MPs from other EU countries making decisions which may influence the UK and that's it. Your country, you make your own laws, rather than being dictated to by some unelected bureaucratic institution based in another country, e.g. Belgium. The EU started off as a trading block, the EEC and it should have remained at that.
All that money we gave to the Spanish for their high speed rail network, could have been invested in our railway network. As the expression goes, charity begins at home.
Same as the ROI. The EU has turned them from a poor country into a wealthy country, mostly due to income into the EU fund from Germany and the UK.
Much of EU funding was subsidies, most of which the UK didn't need, so we got what is called a 'bum deal'.
Theresa May has said she will not overturn the result of the referendum, as IMO a referendum is binding and the UK will not be bullied by the EU.
The rest of the EU are crying like babies because the UK overall is the most powerful member when you take all things into account, maybe not GDP wise but military wise, the internet hub of Europe (London LINX) and our relations with the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Internet_Exchange