Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "EU Made Simple"
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Well remove the veto and destroy what is holy for every member state. I am sure that it would not have any backlash in EU skepticism at all when you destroy 200 years of Swedish neutrality and world record at being at peace... or when you remove the right to roam, and take away its own currency that has a 1000 year long history behind it, and destroy the Swedish economic model, and everything it means to be Swedish šš
Hencefourth can we remove the name Sweden from the map and replace it with "Province number 27". Because that is what the EU is all about. Cultural genocide. Ereasing of history the same way as the talibans and Pol Pot.
Being for the EU is the same as being anti-Swedish. It is the same thing as being a traitor that is more loyal to a hostile foreign power than ones own country and the Swedish constitution which says that the governing power over this power comes from the Swedish people. As it is today that is no longer the case, as 80% of our laws are written by Brussels.
And most decisions about our foreign policy, immigration, economic policy, and so on are decided more by foreign politicians than by Swedes. Less than 3% of the votes in the EU parliament comes from Swedish politicians.
So even if all 21 Swedish members of parliament voted against a proposal that would have catastrophic consequences for Sweden and being equal to a national suicide if one voted for it - then would the Swedish politicians still likely be a small insignificant minority in parliament.
In reality do Germany and France have more power over Sweden, than what Sweden have power over Sweden in the current way which the EU is constructed. Theoretically do only last barrier of national self-defence exist - and that is the veto power a member country has.
You want to remove it. And yes, this veto power has been abused. Greece for example has blocked many foreign policy decisions after taken bribes from China and Russia. But that in my opinion is not a good enough argument for destroying the veto power.. just as removing freedom of speech for everyone just because China and Russia have online trolls that manipulate and destroy our democracies.
You have to not be lazy and come up with another way of fixing this problem. From my perspective however, are things very simple. The EU cannot work well with the veto power. And it cannot work well without it either, since then it turns into a fascist state where the big countries act like an imperialist opressive force over the smaller countries.
Either way is the a bad idea then.
It is a good idea to leave the EU as I love my country and do not want it ereased from history.
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Ā @Bln-f9uĀ I agree. Changing the constitution is too difficult and too time consuming and all member states have to agree to it - and countries, for example France will never give up its stupid and wasteful Strasbourg parliament even if there exist no good argument for keeping it. Its not good for the EU and it is not good for 26 of the member countries and it is not good for the people in Europe. It is only good for France that can act like a parasite on tax payers from other EU countries by keeping this stupid parliament alive.
And indeed, this is the EU in a nutshell.
Member countries seems to have only joined this club to have a vehicle to scam tax payers in other countries.
Of all the thousands of decisions that the EU has made during my life time, have nearly all of them led to a more negative than a positive outcome for me - the average person. Less freedom, less privacy, more taxes, more unemployment, lower standards of living, less well tasting food. Its almost like politicians only seek new ways to
make life miserable for people.
I can only think of 3 instances where the EU made things that I liked. Like giving 155mm ammunition to Ukraine.
Forcing stupid electricians in Sweden to use earthing electrodes - and thus saving 200 people per year from dying from dying from stupid and avoidable electricity accidents. And the time limit on working hours that LapinPete seems to hate. I can only say that the idiotic and cruel schedules used at hospitals are stressing out nurses and nurse assistants and destroy their health with stress, lack of sleep and deprives them of any possibility of having a social life. So it is good that this new rule force hospitals to hire more workers instead of forcing people to overwork and burning themselves out.
However none of those 3 decisions should have needed any EU to make. Sweden could have done those 3 on its own. And I believe that Sweden one day without the EUs help would have figured out that earthing electrodes is a good idea, even our country was stupid and waited 30 years after Denmark to make this common sense decision that saves human lives and does not cost any money.
And the stupid overly idealistic belief in diplomacy and trade to prevent all wars - the very idea that EU is based upon - has been proven wrong. Strong dependence on Russian gas, and strong economic ties with it did not prevent the war in Ukraine. And this idea that everything was fine because we traded and talked with Russia and that a new war therefore would be impossible made us neglect our own military.
To me this shows what a stupid and intellectually lazy foundation that the EU project rests upon. We need to rebuild our own military. And so should other countries in Europe as well. Had we still had a decent military, then there would never have been any ammunition shortage in Ukraine now. Indeed, Russia might never even dared to invade if Europe was armed to the teeth and not so overly relying on buying Russian gas.
And it seems like Germany and France have learned nothing. And do not want to learn either. They are already doing the same mistake with China as they did with Russia, by making themselves too dependent on a warmongering oppressive fascist regime.
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