Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Brexit becomes reality as Britain leaves its 48-year partnership with Europe" video.

@channel1_channel The EU is the very antithesis of nationalism. You're the nationalists here. Nationalism got you Brexit. It sure wasn't rationalism.
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@margodance7236 No, the EU is not a nation. It's a supranational union, a whole new type of political entity. Nationalism doesn't enter into it. There's no national identity that uniquely defines the EU, nor is there a common culture behind it all. The EU is a rational entity, not a national entity.
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You'll need to rethink FPtP and the House of Lords if you want qualify as a democracy -- and neither has anything to do with the EU.
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@grahamellis6029 Why, is there a EU constitution that prescribes that there needs to be a commission and how it should function, something of which you and only you are aware of? The EU commission exists as long as the members -- all of which are led by elected national representatives -- agree on it. Funny you should bring up political renewal. Did you know that the youngest British political party to form a cabinet is the 120-year old Labour Party? That's in stark contrast with, for example, France, where Macron stamped a whole new party out of the ground and won the elections with it -- twice -- within a 2-year time span? Needless to say, your FPtP system has led to severe political stagnation.
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@grahamellis6029 You need to do your homework. The European Parliament can dismiss any member of the commission in a similar fashion to a no-confidence vote in a national parliament. The EP also approves the commission. The latter's appointments are prepared by national ministers, who're answerable to their national parliaments and ultimately, their national electorates. I have to say, you don't make a compelling argument for whatever you're trying to prove. Are you advocating that the EU adopts some direct democratic model akin to that (in a few cantons) in Switzerland? Do you realise that direct democracy won't appear out of thin air in the UK now that Brexit is finally over and done with? There's a reason why representative democracy is overwhelmingly the most common democratic system in use worldwide.
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 @grahamellis6029 OK then, describe to me in intricate detail how you, as a British voter, would set about firing, say, Boris Johnson.
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@summerrr1 Yeah, you can't compare a dysfunctional sports and culture club to a trade bloc of global significance.
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