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> It's especially frightening for us Europeans, that TTIP can overrule existing local legislature That should be nothing new, since the EU has been doing that
by zeveb 11y ago
> It's especially frightening for us Europeans, that TTIP can overrule existing local legislature
That should be nothing new, since the EU has been doing that for ages. Just ask the Britons who would prefer to continue using their traditional measures instead of French measures. Just ask those European states whose people would prefer to retain capital punishment.
- neffy 11y agoLet me just speak on behalf of all English schoolchildren educated after that blessed year 1971 when decimalisation was introduced. Oh thank God that we don't have to use those bloody traditional measures any more. Best, idea, ever! Have you any idea what it's like to try and do base 12 and base 16 calculations when you're 10? Without a calculator?? Presumably there's some alternate universe out there where the British Empire still rules the globe, and the world was forced to convert to imperial - in that universe you have a legitimate complaint. Not in this one.
- coldtea 11y agoHis point is valid (people should be governed in the way that the want, not as some body millions of miles away from the decides), but the examples are the worst ever.