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Exactly, and this is why the people in the thread saying, "don't worry, it won't pass" are not serious. In a year or two, they'll raise it again, except then t
by AlbertCory 3y ago
Exactly, and this is why the people in the thread saying, "don't worry, it won't pass" are not serious.
In a year or two, they'll raise it again, except then they'll know what the opposition thinks and what arguments resonated with the public, so they'll be smarter.
"They can't bring it up again for five years!" -- also not serious. They can resurrect the least controversial parts and call it something else.
The only answer is to fire every single person associated with this, such that they can never work for the EU in any guise, ever again. I'm not optimistic about that happening.
- ryandrake 3y agoIt’s hopeless. The “anti” team has to fight and win an infinite number of times. The “pro” team only has to win once, and that’s that. The deck is stacked.
- AlbertCory 3y agoThe only answers are (1) massive retaliation, i.e. everyone connected with it is fired and can never work for EU again (2) a Constitutional amendment, forcing a supermajority referendum result for any such laws in the future. (1) unlikely. But imagine that the EC put out a proposal mandating a swastika underneath the EU flag, everywhere. Most likely those people would all be blacklisted permanently. So it's not inconceivable. (2) probably doesn't exist in the EU, but maybe it's in a bylaw somewhere.