Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "A Different Bias" channel.

I was living in Poland for three years in the late 90s, i.e. a couple of years before Poland joined the EU - and I am not a EU citizen. It took me half an hour to obtain a Polish working permit. It is funny how people think that before the EU people did not migrate to work. In some years some people will probably think that there was no electricity before the EU.
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@salty666 Now it is close to impossible ? Well, to move anywhere you either need a job there or a good pension plus savings (the latter typically referring to retired people). Spain has had a rather high level of unemployment for many years, so it was nearly impossible for a non-Spanish speaking foreigner to obtain an average job there anyway. The EU is not a job-guaranteeing agency, you see. And for relatively affluent elderly people it should be still easy to spend their retirement in Spain. Hundreds of thousands Germans did so long before Spain joined the EU. And tens of thousands Brits did so in neighboring pre-EU Portugal. In the end it is economical factors which are decisive. To ascribe every chance and every problem to EU membership is amusingly naive.
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"BREXIT" wasn't even a concept. As it did not imply to which new reality it was meant to lead.
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@salty666 Quite possibly there are a couple of thousands of young Brits in all of Spain working in low-paid jobs. However I somehow doubt that given a youth unemployment rate of at least 30% in the last 10 years and the negative impact the pandemic has on Spanish tourism, in which young, English speaking people can presumably find low paid jobs relatively easy. And I doubt even more that among these young people "a disproportionate number seem to be brexit supporters" as the text below this video somehow snarkily ascertains.
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Generally to be agreed with. Yet qualifying both collateral damage and targeting civilians as "murder" is incorrect. As the former is not intended but the latter is.
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Not really "exceptionalism". But the ages-old self definition as a maritime island nation, more connected with Anglo-Saxon overseas countries than the European continent. Plus the very high emotional value placed on sovereignty.
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@maartenaalsmeer The European Union is much more than cooperation between sovereign countries. The term "Union" is quite precise here. I am afraid that you do not understand what sovereignty means. Secondly let me draw your attention to the fact that the UK is in no way exceptional when it comes to upholding sovereignty: The USA do not acknowledge the ICC because that would interfere with their sovereignty. Inside the EU there are countries which challenge the notion that EU law is generally above country constitutions, as that would interfere with their sovereignty. In how far the British sense of closeness to Anglo-Saxon overseas countries is reciprocal is a good question (although irrelevant to describing the British mindset). There are signs that it is at least in some important instances - just see AUKUS, which renders your statement that "Australia tells the UK to p*ss off at every available opportunity" as another sweeping generalization painfully at odds with facts.
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@TheStephaneAdam It is most precious, especially when a dictator took control over the continent and France collaborated with him.
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