• @BananaTrifleViolin
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    Nah, it means the UK wouldn’t rejoin. Voters wouldn’t vote for joining the EU if that meant the Euro and the common agricultural policy and so on. The question will not even be asked for a generation as its so toxic and divisve.

    The EU needs to stop worrying about the UK and focus on its own problems. If i were still an EU citizen I’d be far more bothered by the behaviour of Hungary, the rise of the AFD in Germany and the chances of Le Pen being French president. The EU doesn’t seem well equipped for those problems. The UK is not the EUs problem.

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      The EU doesn’t even think that much anymore about the UK. And the UK isn’t that important anymore, and they struggle to accept that. Maybe they should focus on getting basic utilities working again for their citizens (like Water and Health) and less about telling everyone how great they are.

      If you leave the bigger London Area, most parts of Eastern Europe look more prosperous and advanced

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      This time, however, the right-wing ones are taking place in America and the UK… The exit from the EU has helped the right so much to weaken democracy in the West… then in combination with Trump… the beginning of the trade war… bringing more and more people closer to the right. You mention AfD and Co? Look at how broken and corrupt systems in US and UK are first

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        26 hours ago

        Well im not sure that is correct for the UK. The right wing Reform got 5 seats out of 650. The right wing conservatives vote collapsed and we have a large Labour majority.

        So the right wing are not breaking through in the UK at the moment; if anything they have been pushed back and largely because of the incompetency and corruption of the Conservatives.

        That may change - it is a constant battle - but the UK is not in the hands of authoritarian regime unlike the US. We certainly could do with electoral reform but for the next 5 years things internally are stable.

        Meanwhile France is in crisis with parliament split in thirds between left, right and centre and no obvious candidate to stand against Le pen. And in Germany AFD keeps progressing gaining seats in regional elections. The german federal government is weak and unpopular, woth a perfect opportunity for extreme parties like AFD to make in roads.

        And Hungary is already in the EU, and the EU has been unable to stop its descent into authoritarianism. Orban is nothing short of a trumpian dictator.

        Honestly if you’re in the EU I think you need to wake up to the threats around you. I honestly dont know how the EU will deal with these threats - the dangers are very real and very concerning. You already have a wolf in the sheep pen with Orban; he will undermine effective responses to Trump and can block meaningful change in the EU.

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          It’s not just Hungary. Just look at Romania’s latest statement to divide up Ukraine, does Romania also want a piece of… I come from Germany and democracy has already fallen. The EU is fucked, I’m not saying anything against that. It wasn’t the EU that got the ball rolling. It was the hostile behavior of the US and UK. Officially, right-wing extremism doesn’t lead in your country… but it’s already everywhere in sheep’s clothing. BTW UK is so disgusting when it comes to surveillance etc of its own population… Hitler would have been happy about such a system.