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What is the European Union?

But, Johnson's government is far right because ...
1) It is trying to ban peaceful protest.

No it isn't.

Did you support the Trucker protests in Canada or do you think the government was right to forcefully clear them out?

If the latter, you accept the limits to peaceful protest. Should we say you are in favour of "banning peaceful protests"?

2) It lies with impunity and refuses to correct those lies even in Parliament.
3) It raises taxes on the less well off and poor
4) It is happy to starve children
5) it backs its backers by letting them pollute rivers
6) It plays the race card when it can, it won't even offer Ukranians refuge.
7) It refuses to publish reports
8) It is corrupt and won't reveal all the wasted money on Covid grants.

None of which would qualify anyone as being 'far right'

  • Lying and corruption exist across the spectrum (and corruption is far worse in many EU countries)
  • Hiding inconvenient information for political gain exists across the political spectrum
  • Raising taxes to cover increased public spending is now "far-right"?????
  • Saying it is "happy to starve children" is ludicrous hyperbole
  • While you can say they should voluntarily accept Ukrainian refugees, you can't say someone following standard international law is "far right"

Calling that "far right" it's about as reasonable as Fox News calling Obama a "far left socialist".
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Banking elites require a state to exist. No state, no banking elites.

See, anarchism solves all your problems!

Will you admit that the EU privileges the banking élites over the people's interests?

You know, the Constitution of my country states the people's interests is supposed to prevail over the élites' interests.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
You claimed that the Bolsheviks were "controlled by banking elites", so why are you advocating for Bolshevik-style control of private property?

The 1936 banking law in Italy nationalized the banking system.
So as you can see, there was a time where the State controlled free enterprise fully here.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Yet you praised Mussolini's dictatorship and its policy towards banking.


Look at what the conservative governments of Europe did in Greece to a leftist government that you disdain and attacked as stooges of the "banking élites".

What is Troika? In your opinion
 

Kooky

Freedom from Sanity
A financial dictatorship, yes.
That spits on the EU countries' sovereignty.
Given how much you fawn over actual dictators while decrying representative democracy as tyrannical, I have the suspicion that you don't actually know what a "dictatorship" entails.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Given how much you fawn over actual dictators while decrying representative democracy as tyrannical, I have the suspicion that you don't actually know what a "dictatorship" entails.

I guess dictatorship has become a subjective notion.
But when dictators gain millions of euros from their legwork...it is sad.
 
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Martin

Spam, wonderful spam (bloody vikings!)
I would still rather live in a European country than anywhere else.
 
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