What is the EU?

[PurpleGorilla]

You what? Actually the City of London is more of a plutocracy than the EU I think you'll find...

I agree.

[chopper]

What is the EU?

It is a project to replace 28 individual nations with a single country called Europe, with 28 states within it.

British people decided they wanted no part of being in a country called Europe. For some reason, some deluded Scottish people believe independence means leaving being a big part of Britain only to become a tiny tiny tiny part of the country of Europe.

[vetran]

That thing which Breaminers love, then rationalise their devotion by inventing all kinds of spurious "facts" (often includes ECHR and other organisations which are prequisites of joining the EU), and on which Bremainers use bluster & untruths to defend their misbehaving spouse.

FTFY.

and of course things being a 'condition' of membership of the EU are totally unrelated.

Reality Check: Could the UK stay in EU but leave ECHR? - BBC News

But could the country, as Theresa May suggests, leave the ECHR and abolish the Human Rights Act, but stay in the EU?
That's tricky. There's disagreement between lawyers as to whether adherence to the ECHR is a condition of EU membership, as this House of Commons Library research paper makes clear.
The European Commission has said that it uses being a signatory of the Convention as a way for countries to demonstrate that they have the respect for human rights required for membership.

[scooterscot]

Do tell me which British Politician comes close to this level of corruption?

MPs' expenses: Full list of MPs investigated

[scooterscot]

The EU is s plutocracy.

Are you serious? Saying this from a country governed by wealthy Tories?

You must be trolling.

Burn the history books! We can have a big fire and dance around it like.

[vetran]

MPs' expenses: Full list of MPs investigated

don't see any with multi billion pound fraud. But yes that was embarrassing but at least our accounts get signed off.

If I had been in charge many of the MPs would have been jailed / sacked. Just like a couple of guys who fiddled the expenses at my old firm.

[PurpleGorilla]

Are you serious? Saying this from a country governed by wealthy Tories?

You must be trolling.

Burn the history books! We can have a big fire and dance around it like.

I agree - both the EU and the UK are plutocracies.

I would also argue that many other EU countries are plutocracies and the USA is a plutocracy too.

[vetran]

ah perfect definition

Q. What is the EU?
A. A Failure

[scooterscot]

ah perfect definition

Q. What is the EU?
A. A Failure

I said EU, not UK.

[NotAllThere]

The EU is s plutocracy.

Now there's a Mickey Mouse response.