Thank your lucky stars you don't live in the USA

bigadaj

I've always struggled with the Gandhi quote, the depth of poverty in India is of a different order to anywhere else in the world, with the exception of certain areas of Africa, and the whole Hindu, karma and caste approach is totally at odds with that statement.

Alan_Cross

My sympathies, Eddy.

All you did was mention that Brexit would, effectively, 'localise' our legislature (a la Nevada) and give voice to the consequent possibility that May's threat to establish GB as a low-cost, low-wage, race-to-the-bottom fairyland might just have some negative implications for the kind of folks who haven't got the dough to live in nice, gated communities.

Needless to say, this is heresy to the Brexit-at-ANY-price frothers hereabouts.

Don't forget: you lost the referendum by a tiny fraction and this of course disqualifies your thoughts from having any validity... oh and by the way, despite the passage of time and the obvious possibility that the electorate may have changed its mind on this matter of generational, national importance, you're not allowed to give mention to the idea of a confirmatory, second referendum...

bugslet

Alan_Cross wrote: »

My sympathies, Eddy.

All you did was mention that Brexit would, effectively, 'localise' our legislature (a la Nevada) and give voice to the consequent possibility that May's threat to establish GB as a low-cost, low-wage, race-to-the-bottom fairyland might just have some negative implications for the kind of folks who haven't got the dough to live in nice, gated communities.

Needless to say, this is heresy to the Brexit-at-ANY-price frothers hereabouts.

Don't forget: you lost the referendum by a tiny fraction and this of course disqualifies your thoughts from having any validity... oh and by the way, despite the passage of time and the obvious possibility that the electorate may have changed its mind on this matter of generational, national importance, you're not allowed to give mention to the idea of a confirmatory, second referendum...

I think it was finding two completely seperate things and linking them together to make a ridiculous conclusion.

Maybe after Brexit we could license guns for the average person and then as that would obviously happen, we would have a massacre just like Vegas, only Glastonbury. And from a tent.

steampowered

All I am saying is that by taking back on board our own completely independent legislation, and not having the buffer of EU statute, future law could change for what I see as for the worse as we head for an increasingly market led economy.

This argument doesn't make sense.

EU law doesn't regulate this area and probably never will. This is one area of the law where Brexit doesn't have an impact.

atush

A ridiculous OP that nothing to do wih Brexit, and given all 50 US states have their own laws doesnt have much to do with the USA outside of Nevada.

bostonerimus

I think the OP is tapping into a fear that exists with many people post Brexit that their voice is not heard and that a few rich special interests can use the UK's democracy for their own gain.

OldBeanz

Let's be grateful we are not American would be my way of looking at it.

OldBeanz

eddyinfreehold wrote: »

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"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."

Mahatma Ghandi

He should have taken note of how they treated its strongest as he may have lasted a bit longer.

PeacefulWaters

bugslet wrote: »

I think it was finding two completely seperate things and linking them together to make a ridiculous conclusion.

Maybe after Brexit we could license guns for the average person and then as that would obviously happen, we would have a massacre just like Vegas, only Glastonbury. And from a tent.

High up in a tent.

Malthusian

bostonerimus wrote: »

I think the OP is tapping into a fear that exists with many people post Brexit that their voice is not heard and that a few rich special interests can use the UK's democracy for their own gain.

Because our voices are heard so loud and clear right now. I only have to lift my hand and shout "I'm hungry" and Jean-Claude Juncker will knock on the door and give me a sandwich.

I think this "fear" works logically more like this: "1. Brexit is bad 2. This is bad 3. Therefore Brexit will cause this".

Brexit is filling the void that used to be occupied by Satan or the lonely old woman who lived at the edge of the village, as an explanation and scapegoat for everything bad that happens or may happen. Where every time the crops failed or someone caught plague you said "Ah, 'tis the devil's work" and walked away happy that you knew how the world worked and didn't have to think about it any longer or do anything to improve your situation. Other than setting the old lady on fire.