This is what EU ‘democracy’ looks like
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It's not much of a livelihood, really. Most MPs are lawyers and most would be making considerably more in private practice. I guess that means that we end up with second rate, incompetent lawyers in politics or perhaps those without a shred of honest ambition. Suffice to say that no one who is honestly following the rules is getting wealthy in our political system.
Where did I say honestly ? How did Cretien that little guy from Shawinigan become a multimillionaire ? How did Gerald Butts amass 22 million dollars ? How much money has poured into Trudeau’s foundation since he was elected PM . Are you blind ?
TONY PARSONS I wouldn’t trust new Eurocrats to run a whelk stall
Comment
Tony Parsons, Sun on Sunday columnist
7 Jul 2019
The Sun on Sunday
JUST when you feel your faith in Brexit flagging, the European Union does something so monumentally stupid that you know we have to get the thing over the line.
Behind closed doors, the EU has just doled out its top jobs to Brussels’ next generation of unelected, unaccountable Ayatollahs.
Germany's Ursula von der Leyen is congratulated on her new job by Donald Tusk Credit: AP:Associated Press
And the prestige posts are all going to fanatical federalists who believe that Brexit is the devil’s spawn.
Ursula von der Leyen, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker as EU Commission president in November, talks with a straight face about a European Union army defending a United States of Europe. No, really.
Christine Lagarde, replacing Mario Draghi as European Central Bank president, was a proud cheerleader for Project Fear in her role as head of the International Monetary Fund, predicting the UK’s collapse if we dared vote for Brexit.
And Charles Michel, the lame duck Belgium Prime Minister replacing Donald Tusk as EU Council President, has consistently dismissed Brexit as a contemptible little “soap opera”.
Christine Lagard is another ominous appointment Credit: AFP
Come back, Jean-Claude Drunker — all is forgiven!
I have seen these appointments described as a “huge headache” for the next British Prime Minister.
On the contrary, having an elite of Brexit-bashing, Brit-loathing Eurocrats spitting their federalist poison at us makes leaving the EU inevitable.
Nothing is more likely to finally get us out of the European Union than having a sneering, bossy rabble of democracy-denying nonentities wagging their fingers in our faces.
I wouldn’t trust the EU Ayatollahs to run a whelk stall.
Charles Michel replacing Tusk is not an appointment which helps Britain in any way Credit: AFP
Charles Michel’s major claim to fame is that he became Belgium’s youngest ever PM in 2014, despite his party coming third in the elections.
Christine Lagarde was convicted of criminal negligence in 2016 over a financial scandal in France but spared jail time and allowed to keep her job.
She is the first female head of the European Central Bank and also the first who has no background in economics.
Despite her eight years as head of the IMF, Lagarde is a lawyer and a politician. So best of luck saving the Euro, Christine.
Ursula von der Leyen’s nomination as EU Commission President has provoked outrage in her native Germany, where it is perceived as an undeserved reward for miserable failure.
Von Leyen's track record makes her appointment odd Credit: Reuters
Frau von der Leyen’s six years as defence minister earned her the reputation as “the worst minister in Germany” and being promoted to President of the EU Commission is seen as getting “kicked upstairs” by her friend, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Certainly there is nothing on Ursula’s CV to warrant such a promotion.
As defence minister, Frau von der Leyen prioritised creches and flexible working hours for Germany’s armed forces.
Funding shortages became so dire on her watch that on a Nato training exercise in Norway, German troops were obliged to use broomsticks painted black instead of guns.
I don’t fancy her EU army’s chances against the Russians.
But I would bet they have childcare facilities to die for.
Unelected by the people, unaccountable to the people and contemptuous of the people, this next generation of Eurocrats remind us why the British have no future inside this arrogant empire.
Yes, Brexit has been an agony.
But the appointment of the EU’s new Ayatollahs prove that remaining is unthinkable.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9451933/i-wouldnt-trust-new-eurocrats-whelk-stall/
Comment
Tony Parsons, Sun on Sunday columnist
7 Jul 2019
The Sun on Sunday
JUST when you feel your faith in Brexit flagging, the European Union does something so monumentally stupid that you know we have to get the thing over the line.
Behind closed doors, the EU has just doled out its top jobs to Brussels’ next generation of unelected, unaccountable Ayatollahs.
Germany's Ursula von der Leyen is congratulated on her new job by Donald Tusk Credit: AP:Associated Press And the prestige posts are all going to fanatical federalists who believe that Brexit is the devil’s spawn.
Ursula von der Leyen, replacing Jean-Claude Juncker as EU Commission president in November, talks with a straight face about a European Union army defending a United States of Europe. No, really.
Christine Lagarde, replacing Mario Draghi as European Central Bank president, was a proud cheerleader for Project Fear in her role as head of the International Monetary Fund, predicting the UK’s collapse if we dared vote for Brexit.
And Charles Michel, the lame duck Belgium Prime Minister replacing Donald Tusk as EU Council President, has consistently dismissed Brexit as a contemptible little “soap opera”.
Christine Lagard is another ominous appointment Credit: AFP Come back, Jean-Claude Drunker — all is forgiven!
I have seen these appointments described as a “huge headache” for the next British Prime Minister.
On the contrary, having an elite of Brexit-bashing, Brit-loathing Eurocrats spitting their federalist poison at us makes leaving the EU inevitable.
Nothing is more likely to finally get us out of the European Union than having a sneering, bossy rabble of democracy-denying nonentities wagging their fingers in our faces.
I wouldn’t trust the EU Ayatollahs to run a whelk stall.
Charles Michel replacing Tusk is not an appointment which helps Britain in any way Credit: AFPCharles Michel’s major claim to fame is that he became Belgium’s youngest ever PM in 2014, despite his party coming third in the elections.
Christine Lagarde was convicted of criminal negligence in 2016 over a financial scandal in France but spared jail time and allowed to keep her job.
She is the first female head of the European Central Bank and also the first who has no background in economics.
Despite her eight years as head of the IMF, Lagarde is a lawyer and a politician. So best of luck saving the Euro, Christine.
Ursula von der Leyen’s nomination as EU Commission President has provoked outrage in her native Germany, where it is perceived as an undeserved reward for miserable failure.
Von Leyen's track record makes her appointment odd Credit: Reuters Frau von der Leyen’s six years as defence minister earned her the reputation as “the worst minister in Germany” and being promoted to President of the EU Commission is seen as getting “kicked upstairs” by her friend, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Certainly there is nothing on Ursula’s CV to warrant such a promotion.
As defence minister, Frau von der Leyen prioritised creches and flexible working hours for Germany’s armed forces.
Funding shortages became so dire on her watch that on a Nato training exercise in Norway, German troops were obliged to use broomsticks painted black instead of guns.
I don’t fancy her EU army’s chances against the Russians.
But I would bet they have childcare facilities to die for.
Unelected by the people, unaccountable to the people and contemptuous of the people, this next generation of Eurocrats remind us why the British have no future inside this arrogant empire.
Yes, Brexit has been an agony.
But the appointment of the EU’s new Ayatollahs prove that remaining is unthinkable.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9451933/i-wouldnt-trust-new-eurocrats-whelk-stall/
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Or you could just answer the question. But of course, that would reveal that your chief executive was elected by a handful of voters in Pustulent Dickhead and a bunch of career politicians.
She received the votes of maybe one percent of the British people.
How many votes did each of these three receive?
And I'll point out again that if the EU's system of electing these three was in any way democratic and even slightly resembled the Westminster system - which isn't the case on both counts, despite your feeble attempts to portray them as such - each of the three appointees would be from the Brexit Party.
I made no such attempt. I simply pointed out that your claim of democracy is as fantastical as everything else you believe about Briddin.
That's OK. Hard Brexit is coming, and we'll both be happy. You'll enjoy your "freedom," and I'll enjoy Britain's continuing decline.
Britain is a democracy. A parliamentary democracy. It may seem alien to you in a presidential democracy - which I'm glad we don't have - but that doesn't mean Britain doesn't operate a democratic system. Indeed, Britain is the world's oldest surviving democracy.
If the EU was in any way democratic and resembled the British Parliamentary system, Nigel Farage would be the EU Prime Minister - as the Brexit Party is the largest party in the EU Parliament - the Brexit Party would be the ruling party and each of these three appointees would be from the Brexit Party, appointed by Farage. The three appointees would continue to be from the Brexit Party until the EU public elect another party to govern them.
But the EU doesn't operate in a democratic way - it's not undemocratic, it's ANTI-democratic. Instead they were secretly selected behind closed doors with no democratic process.
Terrible. The UK leaves the EU according to the democratic vote of the 2016 referendum. What a terrible time for democracy.
As for the Scots, they voted to remain within the UK in 2014 knowing full well that an EU in/out referendum is likely.
One is under stress because of sanctions imposed by the World Banks, the other one is even more stressed out because they didn't want the sanctions. Without removing the aspects that brings to the picture you cannot get a good look at what a socialism is like as far as how the least important are affected. Right now they are considered to be 'useless eaters' and the elite should be able to do better than that.
They are different as they have never had sanctions brought against them and being home to the World Bank means it is a sanctuary for the bankrupt business owners and bankers as they do not extradite.
$1T social welfare fund deposited, your list of things to do: (world debt is $75T and increasing at 6% so I do not have any such list)
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