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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by ZeroGravitas on Friday June 24, 2016 @01:18PM (#11971635)
The people of the UK voted for the Conservatives, on an explicit platform of austerity.

Only 37% of the population was needed for this, but this is because the UK voters had been apathetic about the opportunity to reform the voting system.

So how can they claim to be disappointed by the EU adopting the same polities?

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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by nickik on Friday June 24, 2016 @01:23PM (#11971678)
Because the EU is soled on a platform of European Unity and how they are the highest achievement of the European Political classes.

The UK has a reason for their bad system. They have a very gradualist history. Compare it to France, where we are talking about the Republic 5 right now.

If we are doing a project for European Unity is should actually be better then everything else. It should be better then Switzerland, not worse then the UK.

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