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Leaving the EU or ending free movement with EU countries leads to a significant increase in immigration from the third world, as Brexit showed.
by cynicalsecurity 4mo ago
Leaving the EU or ending free movement with EU countries leads to a significant increase in immigration from the third world, as Brexit showed.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo agoIt really doesn’t have to. Britain being incompetent is sort of its own chapter in governance.
- idiotsecant 4mo agono true scotsman
- JumpCrisscross 4mo agoNot what that means.
- idiotsecant 4mo agoThats exactly what that means. The UK did the thing you want to do and had a bad outcome because they didn't do it right. The true and best and correct way to get it done of course would have none of those bad outcomes.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> UK did the thing you want to do The UK invoked Article 50. It didn’t have to, but it chose to because Britain. There is no world in which Switzerland is the party that tears up all of its EU agreements. If someone says that’s a bad dog and I say no, that’s a cat, that’s not an example of No True Scotsman, it’s a category error.
- karmakurtisaani 4mo agoFree movement is at the heart of the EU project. You start restricting that and the EU will tear up the agreements. We saw this already some 10 years ago when a similar vote passed, and EU stopped a lot of collaborations with the Swiss.
- qalmakka 4mo agoIt's clear to everyone involved that the EU deeply regrets how they did the Swiss agreements. Switzerland basically ended up in a parallel carbon copy of the EFTA for all intents and purposes. It was clearly stated during the Brexit charade that the bureaucratic fatigue of having so many cherry picked agreements with Switzerland made the likelihood of doing the same with the UK basically zero. The EU has always been clear that the single market comes alongside the four freedoms. If Switzerland approves this referendum that's a very high chance they will have to exit the single market too, which will hurt Switzerland immensely. This is very ironic to me, because right now we live in a world where the irrelevance of small nations is getting clearer and clearer by the day. Political norms and international law are being trampled daily by the larger powers, and Switzerland was recently at the very end of it when Trump basically bullied them by imposing on them tariffs that were vastly higher than the EU and then ghosting them because he couldn't give a shit about them
- selfmodruntime 4mo agoYou're using that fallacy wrong.
- Argonaut998 4mo agoThe Swiss ruling class don’t have as much disdain for their populace. It will only end up that way if the Swiss people will it. A lot of the UK’s problems were a result of the EU being vindictive as well. The EU won’t act vindictively because they aren’t in the EU.
- cynicalsecurity 4mo agoVindictive how? That it refuses to let the Brits have their cake and eat it?
- Argonaut998 4mo agoVindictive in preventing trade agreements. Vindictive like France doing nothing to stop the immigrants going through the channel
- Gud 4mo agoWhat “ruling class”? Switzerland is a direct democracy.
- Argonaut998 4mo agoOn paper
- Gud 4mo agoNo? Switzerland is a direct democracy.