The EU debate - Part III

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King Kustard said:
If you say so. snowflake
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Who said this?

"The same jobs the Brits are not getting as its cheaper to employ Romanians on minimum wage in central London, where no brit can afford to work/live.

**** the lot of them off"

and

"Romanians live 10 to a house so they can live on a lower wage, do you live in the real world?
Take out the unwanted workforce and wages will rise and we will all be happy"

There's loads more like this. You can change accounts and usernames as much as you want but your writing style (ie the pidgin English of a simpleton) will eventually give you away and you won't be able to distance yourself from your racist ramblings.
 
Hull City AFC (DMD) said:
The European Union (EU) is not de jure a federation but various academics have argued that it contains some federal characteristics.

Here is the view of Professor R. Daniel Kelemen (Rutgers University) on how various brands of scholars approach the issue:

Unencumbered by the prejudice that the EU is sui generis and incomparable, federalism scholars now regularly treat the EU as a case in their comparative studies (Friedman-Goldstein, 2001; Fillippov, Ordeshook, Shevtsova, 2004; Roden, 2005; Bednar, 2006). For the purposes of the present analysis, the EU has the necessary minimal attributes of a federal system and crucially the EU is riven with many of the same tensions that afflict federal systems.[1]

According to Joseph H. H. Weiler, "Europe has charted its own brand of constitutional federalism".[10] Jean-Michel Josselin and Alain Marciano see the European Court of Justiceas being a primary force behind building a federal legal order in the Union[11] with Josselin stating that "A complete shift from a confederation to a federation would have required to straightforwardly replace the principality of the member states vis-à-vis the Union by that of the European citizens. … As a consequence, both confederate and federate features coexist in the judicial landscape."[12]

According to Thomas Risse and Tanja A. Börzel, "The EU only lacks two significant features of a federation. First, the Member States remain the 'masters' of the treaties, i.e., they have the exclusive power to amend or change the constitutive treaties of the EU. Second, the EU lacks a real 'tax and spend' capacity, in other words, there is no fiscal federalism."[13]

The two points in the last one are debatable, as while we don't pay direct tax we pay to a central pot, and the ability to amend treaties is limited.
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Exactly. It has no central fiscal policy. Therefore it's not a federal state.
 
Watford_R said:
I do understand it. Apart from it applying to young people (which you aren't) and specifically students (which I doubt you ever were given you can barely string a sentence together) it fits you well.
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So you dont understand snowflake at all, sound about right with your age group, all want want want with no give give give.
 
steveninaster1 said:
You know the NHS was a political card that both sides of the argument played. The extra money was a ruse to counteract the argument that without foreign workers the system was screwed.
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Yep. I don't know how that gives your one person any more credibility than the guy from Barnsley some roll out to accuse all brexiters of being racist.
 
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