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EU is not a foreign entity, it's made up of the governments of the members(some elected some appointed by the locally elected). So when you leave EU, you end up
by mrtksn 4y ago
EU is not a foreign entity, it's made up of the governments of the members(some elected some appointed by the locally elected). So when you leave EU, you end up to live with the entity that tried to introduce it in first place.
If they didn't wanted that, they could have blocked it. However, leaving EU might actually help the government to have a better localised excuse. For example, maybe child abuse is not a big thing in your country but immigration is a hot topic? Then you can have "break the encryption to stop the human smugglers" campaign.
- pushkine 4y agoYour argument does not stand with e.g. France. In France, there's an election for each. One for national parliament seats, one for EU parliament seats. In the last decade, the national elections were usually won by center-left (Macron's party) while the EU ones were won by the far-right (Le Pen even has a seat at the EU parliament AFAIK)
- mrtksn 4y agoWhat it doesn’t stand exactly? Who is the foreign entity that makes French people do at stuff? Macros? Le Pen? The French voters?
- pushkine 4y agoWell in theory I'd agree with you, but in practice your assertion that people would vote the same party nationally and at the EU level is demonstrably false
- mrtksn 4y agoI don't get it? Do you claim that one of the elections is rigged? I mean, we have multiple elections for a reason right? People choose to vote for different people on different elections, why would that be problematic and how that would be "fixed" if France left EU?