Really it's the victory of a decades-long press "fake news" campaign. For years papers and politicians alike have misreported EU directives, ECJ decisions, ECHR decisions (not even part of the EU), and UK human rights law decisions. This is the result.
The UK media have also given up on providing an accurate picture of the country outside London, and on any kind of industrial or trade news coverage that isn't entirely driven by press releases. And the 2008 crisis made life worse for a lot of people in ways the government has done nothing to address.
It's quite funny because UK media and press workers also live in UK so they are equally responsible for what is going to happen to them and to the whole country.
By "democracy" we mean "a non-proportional system with an unelected upper house, which is currently dealing with a scandal involving opaque campaign finance arrangements that may have broken the law, and the assistance of shady companies that specialise in tipping the scales of elections with dirty tricks in e.g. Kenya"?
The EU knows what the pain points are and has done nothing to alleviate them. They deserve the backlash they are getting from the UK and East Europe, and their arrogance will cost them even more in the coming years.
Well, the major pain point of the EU has voted itself out, so the doing nothing strategy has worked there.
As for some "East Europe": for better or worse, they're part of the club. If they play by the rules, their objections must be heard. I disagree vehemently with them, but some workable compromise that nobody likes will be found, and things move on. That's politics. I don't have to like it as long as I understand the necessity.
As an Italian living in Poland, I can tell you that the Poles' approach is about 1000 times better, especially in regards to immigration, which has completely ruined Italy (although not because of the immigrants, but rather our inability to deal with anything seriously).
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The UK's move to leave the EU will probably be the most regretted in history.
The level of pain and expenses that they are and will endure is really something else.
And for what..? Go figure.
Blue passports? /s
Really it's the victory of a decades-long press "fake news" campaign. For years papers and politicians alike have misreported EU directives, ECJ decisions, ECHR decisions (not even part of the EU), and UK human rights law decisions. This is the result.
The UK media have also given up on providing an accurate picture of the country outside London, and on any kind of industrial or trade news coverage that isn't entirely driven by press releases. And the 2008 crisis made life worse for a lot of people in ways the government has done nothing to address.
It's quite funny because UK media and press workers also live in UK so they are equally responsible for what is going to happen to them and to the whole country.
The owners however are generally not domiciled in the UK. It's not as if the workers get a say in the content.
Well, the main points of the ones in favor were debunked right after the referendum, so it's hard to disagree that it was fake news.
It's also easy to exploy people's problems to rally them against a fake common enemy, and it worked wonderfully.
I wonder who gained from this, amd why they did it. I don't think they believed their own lies..?
"for what?" to "take back control" and restore democracy.
By "democracy" we mean "a non-proportional system with an unelected upper house, which is currently dealing with a scandal involving opaque campaign finance arrangements that may have broken the law, and the assistance of shady companies that specialise in tipping the scales of elections with dirty tricks in e.g. Kenya"?
That's laughable.
And it did make me laugh for a few seconds.
The EU knows what the pain points are and has done nothing to alleviate them. They deserve the backlash they are getting from the UK and East Europe, and their arrogance will cost them even more in the coming years.
Well, the major pain point of the EU has voted itself out, so the doing nothing strategy has worked there.
As for some "East Europe": for better or worse, they're part of the club. If they play by the rules, their objections must be heard. I disagree vehemently with them, but some workable compromise that nobody likes will be found, and things move on. That's politics. I don't have to like it as long as I understand the necessity.
As an Italian living in Poland, I can tell you that the Poles' approach is about 1000 times better, especially in regards to immigration, which has completely ruined Italy (although not because of the immigrants, but rather our inability to deal with anything seriously).
Such as?