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These international institutions are not visibly working for the vast majority of the electorate though. The British working class finally voted for their inter
by googletazer 10y ago
These international institutions are not visibly working for the vast majority of the electorate though. The British working class finally voted for their interests and of course they've been vilified from the top for it. All these institutions have allowed for is centralization of power under one ruler/representative instead of dozen smaller ones.
- tormeh 10y agoYou don't understand how the EU works. There is a parliament and a central bureaucracy, yes, but 80% of it is just leaders of national governments sitting in a surveillance-proof room hashing out deals. There are legitimate complaints against how the EU is structured, but this is not one of them.
- notJim 10y ago> These international institutions are not visibly working for the vast majority of the electorate though. This is cleary true, but it doesn't follow that the right solution is to quit the union rather than reforming it. There are more options than rabid nationalism vs total financialization.
- __jal 10y ago> British working class finally voted for their interests That's a funny way of defining 'interests'.
- 7952 10y agoThe raison d'etre for these kind of institutions is precisely to centralise power. So that matters of wider community importance can be agreed upon collectively and standardised. And we absolutely do have issues that need to be solved at a continental level. The problem is that sometimes those institutions overreach into areas that should be handled at a lower level. Arguably the British Parliament is more guilty of this than the EU and has control of things that are much more important to everyday life.