TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Dismantled in Secret

Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma... by zeveb on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:16AM (#11174930)

> It's especially frightening for us Europeans, that TTIP can overrule existing local legislature

That should be nothing new, since the EU has been doing that for ages. Just ask the Britons who would prefer to continue using their traditional measures instead of French measures. Just ask those European states whose people would prefer to retain capital punishment.

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Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma... by neffy on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:34AM (#11175070)

Let me just speak on behalf of all English schoolchildren educated after that blessed year 1971 when decimalisation was introduced.

Oh thank God that we don't have to use those bloody traditional measures any more. Best, idea, ever! Have you any idea what it's like to try and do base 12 and base 16 calculations when you're 10? Without a calculator??

Presumably there's some alternate universe out there where the British Empire still rules the globe, and the world was forced to convert to imperial - in that universe you have a legitimate complaint. Not in this one.

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Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma... by coldtea on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:50AM (#11175175)

His point is valid (people should be governed in the way that the want, not as some body millions of miles away from the decides), but the examples are the worst ever.

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