Comments by "Rob McCune" (@robm6645) on "Caller Asks Which Right Wing European Populism Most Concerning" video.

  1. If anything your comment shows illiteracy is the decisive reason for the Brexit vote.
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  2. Tespri Almost all real problems with the remaining in EU either aren't relevant to Britain or are the problems with the Brexit politicians themselves. They sold it on fear ignorance and demonization.
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  3. Tespri That's it? The problem with the EU is "regulation?" If you think that's the problem you are reading far worse sources than buzzfeed lol. The average English person isn't the average American conservative, and as the Trump phenomenon has shown, the average American conservative isn't concerned with all this deregulation garbage. Brexit isn't the rise of a purely free market conservative anymore than the tea party was. Essentially the Brexit campaign blamed the problems of austerity on foreigners, whether in the European Parliament or immigrants, in actuality austerity was imposed on the U.K. by the U.K. Parliament. For example there is the infamous promise that all that dirty money going to the EU would go to the National Health (not a very free market thing) that was immediately dismissed once Brexit actually passed. Brexit didn't even get rid of the immigrants it supporters wanted because immigration from outside Europe is allowed by U.K. laws rather than European laws. European laws only cover immigrants from within the EU, meaning Brexit was only useful for getting rid of Pols and Romanians, not Muslims. That is what Brexit passed on, not any kind of free market sentiment. That said Brexit doesn't even deliver on free market sentiment. EU "regulations" address issues that would have to be regulated in any modern nation. They prevent incongruity of regulation that might impede commerce within the EU. Britain is going to need clean air laws, consumer product safety laws, clean food laws, ect. and there is no evidence that the conservative government is going to begin some kind of radical deregulation regime. Not only that but Brexit has also cut the U.K. off from a free trade zone encompassing most of it's neighbors, and now has trade barriers erected against it. Not only that but it now has a weaker position in trade negotiations since it is no longer an entry to the European Market. I somehow doubt that you, who quotes Milton Friedman, are anti-free trade, yet here you are promoting a move that erects barriers to trade. What does the conservative equivalent to buzzfeed that you get your information from say to that?
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  4. Seeing as it stands a real chance of destroying a European country, yes.
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  5. Hawkeye 1982 You don't think the threat of the UK breaking up over this is a problem?
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