Carryfast,
The problem with this is it assumes people will make the same judgements and mistakes all over again, it likens Europeans to Americans and Roman Imperialism.
Also, the fact that most Brexitiers claim dictatorial rule by the un-elected - it’s a complete denial or misunderstanding of reality. Each of the member states is a democratic country and each has it’s own methods within their democracy of selecting MEP’s. In the U.K. we simply elect them, in the same way we elect all MP’s - via the ballot box.
Moving beyond that, rarely do politicians fully represent the electorate. This is for a number of reasons… (not least) the electorate are pretty lazy. Evidence can be found in both turn-out and by the number of people who fail to write to their elected MP’s. Indeed, when I’ve asked people for the name of their local MP… very few (without looking them up) actually know the answer…
Then there’s the number of people who write to their MEP… so low it’s almost insignificant.
So, if you don’t lobby, or you don’t petition - - you don’t get representation.
As someone who voted remain, I did so without worrying too much about what the Romans did, but with a view of what I want both for the present and the future of my offspring. The result has left me very concerned for the future… I worry that we will end up pretty much in the wilderness for some time to come - hopefully we’ll reach a point when enough politicians are able to take us back in.
What I would call for are new regulations to control politicians here. These would include looking at the words they use and the influence of those words. It’s very clear that some of the main Brexit leaders completely misled the public and that should be criminal and punishable by the law.
It’s also obvious that, had there been a couple of years of honest debate, then the Brexitiers would have had nothing to bring to the party. All they appear to offer is: It’ll be ok.
Basically, you’ve been had. This was always a Tory plan to increase their controls - because they constantly have human rights issues which have been rejected by the EU. Unfortunately the people who benefitted most by the restrictions imposed by the EU, are the ones most likely to feel the squeeze after we leave. In short, if you are working class you are stuffed.
The really sad thing about all of this is we had moved forward culturally with great strides and we’ve permitted a bunch of self interested politicians to do us over. Add into the mix the ultra right knuckle draggers and we have taken just as many strides back as we had forward.
As someone with a British Father and a Dutch Mother, I was lucky that my mother spoke four languages fluently, my father being typically British… was English only. My mother shared her knowledge of language with me and my siblings.
It does make me laugh though when I hear the phrase; “Making Britain Great Again.”
The British people are the most literally inept people on planet earth. You’ll not find another culture so restricted by a single language.
My question to the Brexitiers is… how are you going to make Britain great again?
Gonna shout at em and point?
The average Brexitier has completely lost grip on reality - it’s gonna be a huge set back and those at the bottom of the [zb]pile had better get real on this… your / their [zb] is gonna get much deeper, very soon.
If you need asterisks to get words past the auto censor, then that’s a clue that you’re using a banned word.
The simple rule is … just type anything you like, then leave the auto censor to do its work. dd.
