General Discussion
@Losit You seem befuddled. The ECHR and ECJ are two entirely separate entities. And if all goes well, the ECJ will soon have no power in the UK.
Negotiations on the UK side are being conducted by Olly Robbins who was once Principal Private Secretary to Tony Blair, and while studying at Oxford was president of the Oxford Reform Club, a group promoting a federal EU. So we have a Remain Prime Minister and the chief negotiator is of the same ilk. No wonder we are where we are. Michael Portillo made a very good point on Thursday's This ...
So Leave voters are all racists, the Remainers forgot to throw in the other usual insults; that we are all thick, uneducated, Daily-Mail-reading scum. And if immigration and racism are inextricably linked, does that then mean every country in the world which has immigration rules is also racist?
Ted Heath in 1973.
"White privilege" is term invented by lefties in order to make white people feel guilty about making a success of themselves.
@S What has skin colour got to do with any of this? Sounds a bit racist to me.
You're having a laugh. It is the EU that has not negotiated, Brussels considers the EU project to be sacrosanct will not allow anything to undermine that idealogy. It's why after two years we are barely any further forward. The only option is for a no-deal exit, a negotiated withdrawal is impossible. It would help if we had a PM who believes in Brexit.
What do you consider to be legit news sources, The Guardian, the BBC? The link I quoted came from a respected blogger who has as large online following. There was a widespread and sustained campaign across Europe and the wider world against the EU directive, that must tell you something about the concerns of this meddling.
If the decision made by the electorate in 2016 to leave the EU is overturned before it is put into effect then we might as well give up on democracy in this country. Using the Remoaners logic we should have a general election every year, just to be sure we haven't changed our mind since the last one.
You're a bit late to this party. At the time I wrote the original post it was far from clear just exactly what would be covered by this directive, and there was a very real threat that even links to news websites would be affected.