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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Bubbles on March 05, 2017, 12:38:32 PM

Title: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Bubbles on March 05, 2017, 12:38:32 PM
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/912906582184183/

If that link won't work try this one

http://www.euronews.com/2017/03/03/polish-mep-faces-investigation-for-sexist-rant-during-eu-debate

Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Rhiannon on March 05, 2017, 12:52:14 PM
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/912906582184183/

If that link won't work try this one

http://www.euronews.com/2017/03/03/polish-mep-faces-investigation-for-sexist-rant-during-eu-debate

On what basis? Because some parts of Europe elect dickheads? We're good at that too, you know.
Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 05, 2017, 12:52:45 PM
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/912906582184183/

If that link won't work try this one

http://www.euronews.com/2017/03/03/polish-mep-faces-investigation-for-sexist-rant-during-eu-debate

Just to note the MEP wants the dissolution of the EU so is a Brexiteer.
Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: jeremyp on March 05, 2017, 02:19:00 PM
Yes, because nobody in British politics is sexist in that way... oh, wait.

Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Bubbles on March 05, 2017, 04:00:30 PM
It was just an initial reaction to seeing some of the material that floats to the top in the form of MEPs.

The bloke is a complete barnpot. This comment below is up there with sexual freedom being responsible for earthquakes.

"] He further claimed that: "there is a hypothesis that the attitudes of men are passed to women by way of the semen which penetrates the tissue... now when contraceptives are much more in use, the women become much more independent".[11"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korwin-Mikke

It occurred to me that the EU can act as a means for (in my opinion) unsuitable people to have influence in the lives of people in Europe.

Nigel Farage also " floated " to the top to become an MEP.

You also have Marine Le Pen, who is also an MEP.

I don't want any of those people influencing policy in the uk.

The role seems to attract a certain type of undesirable, was my feeling.




Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 05, 2017, 04:08:04 PM
Yes, and all of rhem are Brexiteers so how does Brexit stop it?
Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Bubbles on March 05, 2017, 04:11:36 PM
Yes, and all of rhem are Brexiteers so how does Brexit stop it?

They destroy their own platform, hopefully.

Like Nigel Farage did, his party have no chance of winning an election.

Without the EU to moan about, he has lost his influence and his platform.

I hope Marine Le Pen loses hers, too.
Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 05, 2017, 04:14:21 PM
They destroy their own platform, hopefully.

Like Nigel Farage did, his party have no chance of winning an election.

Without the EU to moan about, he has lost his influence and his platform.

I hope Marine Le Pen loses hers, too.

How does that work? If they are racist sexist and win why does the country that their supporters form become less facist sexist?
Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Bubbles on March 05, 2017, 06:20:24 PM
How does that work? If they are racist sexist and win why does the country that their supporters form become less facist sexist?

They don't win, that's the point.

You said ......

" 2. There isn't really a point to UKIP any more. If they couldn't win Stoke, where will they win, but more importantly why will they win? Their raison d'etre has gone, subsumed by May and events. They have little other than a ragbag of constantly changing policies with no coherence. "

Because it removes their platform and takes away their access to power.

The only reason Farage had a platform was because he was a MEP
Title: Re: It's things like this that make me think, maybe brexit isn't such a bad thing
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 05, 2017, 06:25:28 PM
They don't win, that's the point.

You said ......

" 2. There isn't really a point to UKIP any more. If they couldn't win Stoke, where will they win, but more importantly why will they win? Their raison d'etre has gone, subsumed by May and events. They have little other than a ragbag of constantly changing policies with no coherence. "

Because it removes their platform and takes away their access to power.
it takes away them/UKIP winning by elections. It doesn't remove the point of racists and sexists. And they have been strengthened by the vote because like the Polish MEP they have something that they wanted.