Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "The Guardian" channel.

I didn't know that not plunging your economy into a recession by spending money you don't have is "right wing". Greeks pensioned in their bloody 50's... Italians now want to spend a huge amount of money on early pension, all kinds of subsidy even though they simply don't have that money. Opposing that is not right wing, it is the only sensible thing to do. They are destroying themselves with those policies. Short term fun for long term malaise. And we in the North usually have to pay. They must change their policies and be sensible.
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I agree. We must have an EU that gets the things listed here done but at the same time respects the countries' autonomy on other issues.
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If we allow EU fanatics to turn it into a superstate, yes you're right. If we fight for a reasonable and limited EU which respects the member states, then we can have the positives without the situation you describe here.
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The EU literally is that international cooperation. The EU is just a bunch of countries sitting around a table voting on laws. Some want the EU to go further and become a superstate, though. That I am against.
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@davidulanovsky8943 Don't tell me you support the insane policy of pensioning at 55, or populists that promise to give people free money that they will just loan, or the utterly broken state of the French economy even though they have so much potential. This is not left vs right, this is sane vs insane. You cannot have luxuries like a 55 pension anymore. It costs a lot of money AND massively decreases your workforce. That is not leftist, that is just poor management. Maybe I don't agree with all the austerity measures, but we do have to have strong and sustainable economies that are not based on sprinkling around money as long as you can before you collapse in the next recession. If you need to know I am economically for leftist policies. But you can't have those policies if you don't have the money to pay for them.
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@o00nemesis00o I agree, but the opposition is rising. The EU is not some distant organisation that can't be changed, the EU is what its member states want it to be. The problem with Cameron was that at the time he was one of the few to want reforms. Now more and more countries want the EU to respect national sovereignty and want reforms to make it more effective in how it deals with f.e. immigration. If we sit this ride out and wait until the sceptics have a majority or at least a proper opposition, we can change the EU. And it is a shame that Britain is no longer there to be part of that movement, they'd have been a big factor. The way I see it you can either give up, leave the EU and leave the other sceptic countries in a weaker coalition or you can stay in and fight for a different EU that has the positives but less of the negatives. And yes that fight may take some time, but nationalism is on the rise, it's only a matter of time. Now we have Italy, Austria, soon to be the Netherlands (largest party of the country is sceptic, not yet in government), Poland, Hungary and more than are nationalistic. Plus the Netherlands leads the newly set up Hanse group, made up of all smaller northern European countries, sceptic of the monetary policy of the EU. This group is already a factor of power. Imagine if the UK was there to join that group... In the end the sceptics will prevail, I believe that. Nonetheless I understand that the British people weren't up for that fight and saw it as a useless endeavour back in 2016. Shame
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