Comments by "Lelly Parker" (@lellyparker) on "Brexit: Merkel gives Johnson 30 days to find backstop solution" video.

One again the EU bending over backwards to do the right thing. England is nothing but an embarrassment in all this. Boris claims he wants a deal but he keeps asking for that which is impossible for the EU to deliver. Britain entered into these agreements, we should man up and stop being the crybabies of Europe wanting to break our commitments at the expense of 27 other countries.
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I am. It is embarrassing. I have been practicing a foreign sounding accent so I can hopefully pass for non-English.
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The EU can't agree to dropping the backstop. The reason is that 27 countries can not and should not allow unregulated goods coming through an unchecked border. No one should expect 27 countries to compromise the integrity of their collective territory just because Britain doesn't know how to untangle itself from its peace treaty in Ireland.
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@A-O "the eu signed a free trade deal with Japan and Canada" Japan spent several years changing its trading standards laws to be complaint with the EU before the deal could be ratified. And, in case you did not notice, neither Japan, nor Canada share an open land border with an EU country.
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@jamesscurr571 Yes, the 30 days period is smart because it shows everyone that it is Boris who has failed to find a solution to violence in Ireland and no one else.
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@laurenbrown869 Very little of what you just said is true. It is obviously off of some ultra right wing fascist propaganda site. The EU is thoroughly democratic. It legislates to prevent big business ripping off consumers. It actually respects consumers as every good market should. Migration will work out just fine in the future as people from poorer European countries improve their lot through migration and pass money back to their countries of origin, That will stimulate development in those areas. Development means business opportunity. Look at poor countries as opportunities to generate future business. Especially the eastern European countries. Have you ever been there? Lush green fertile land completely underdeveloped. Acres of room for people to live in large cheap housing. We just have to start thinking Europe-wide rather than be insular and regressive. Many industrious working British people could be the rich people of Europe if we wanted to be. The world is smaller with the Internet. We can live and work where we want and freedom of movement just means the place we live just got a whole lot bigger - European wide.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "how does the UK trade with China" - Currently through the EU trade deal.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "You have trusted partners" - Trust is built upon agreements and agreements are signed pieces of paper.... deals. Britain's current deal with the EU requires that it does not allow unregulated goods to pass through an open border into EU territory from a third nation. With both the UK and Ireland in the EU that is easy. When we leave the EU we become a third nation. Hence the problem .
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@johnathanpearson3203 "We trade with China on WTO" - Then we trade with China through a hard border.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "What's your opinion on the ONS saying EU immigration has been recorded at levels lower than the real numbers." - Did you personally count them? I love immigration. I enjoy living in a multicultural country. Besides, immigration is vital to the British economy.
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@johnathanpearson3203 A middle way for what? So far I don't see a problem. Funding is a very very simple problem to solve. Tax the very rich to feed the poor a bit better than they do now.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "you seem to support uncontrollable immigration open borders regardless of the impact on public services" - The fact is immigration pays for public services. The fact is immigrants pay more taxes, commit less crime and claim fewer benefits than their native English counterparts. They are a net plus to the economy. So much so that without immigrants we would not be able to pay pensions to the elderly because British people simply don't have enough children. So we need immigration and it is what is paying for much of the public services we receive. I would prefer to tax the rich more and have better public services because the rich take their money where they want regardless. Tory policies of giving tax cuts to the rich hoping they would reinvest it proved to be a total fail.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "Perhaps you are an elite. Who does not need to save pennies to buy a house. With uncontrollable immigration driving up prices ever higher." - No, immigration doesn't drive prices higher. Lack of housing drives prices higher. The government should build more houses.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "Corbyn talks a good talk. Remember when he says he will nationalise the trains? And water? Lol. You cannot do that under the EU. " - Personally I don't have an interest in how the trans are run but it seems that a lot of people think that EU law does not prevent nationalization. Regardless, the EU is democratic, problems can be solved if people want to solve them hard enough.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "We voted to leave in 2016. To leave the EU, CU and SM" - No we didn't. The referendum form only mentioned the EU. No mention of CU and SM. The leave campaign said over and over we would retain access to the SM. No one voted for no-deal.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "The rich won't pay it because they control Westminster. It will be your tax that will pay it. It will be the working poor who will pay it." - The rich do have control over Westminster through money. But legally the voters control Westminster. If people want better public funding all they have to do is stop voting rich Tory leeches into government.
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@johnathanpearson3203 "You seem to be very extreemist stating that you see no middle ground?" - Actually I see myself as a very middle ground kind of person. I accept that society needs to be two tiered (rich & poor). I hate British politics because Tory only supports the rich and Labour only support the poor. But the problem with socialism is you can't just make everyone rich because that would instantly make everyone poor. Look at communism. You need a social "gap" between rich and poor to induce social mobility - the desire to better your lot through work. But the Tories idea is market forces will solve all the problems and economics will find their natural balance. It turns out that the "natural balance" is where rich squeeze the absolute maximum out of the poor leaving them at the very brink of desperation - and eventually revolution. British left/right swings have so-far prevented revolution. But what you really need to do is set social limits. Agree a true minimum acceptable STANDARD OF LIVING that no one should live below and work from there. The rich can only squeeze so far and the tax system will provide a natural re-balancing if the rich try to take too much wealth out of the system
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@johnathanpearson3203 "It's already been said by both labour and Tories that UK house prices have been increased by uncontrollable migration" - But basic economics is not wrong either. More houses means cheaper prices. More people only increases prices when housing remains unchanged to accommodate. And regardless we still need immigration . House prices are a red herring. We NEED immigration. The only alternative to immigration is people having more babies. But do you know what more babies do? They push up the price of housing!. The fact is we need more young tax payers to pay our bills and if we have more children or if we take in immigrants the result is the same. If we do not build extra houses the prices will go up.
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