UK General Discussion:The Rt. Hon Alex Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Populist Hero

[John Dule]

Farage's farewell speech. I hope the EU takes his words to heart. The Union is a disingenuous violation of national sovereignty and it needs to be destroyed.

[John Dule]

Farage's farewell speech. I hope the EU takes his words to heart. The Union is a disingenuous violation of national sovereignty and it needs to be destroyed.

Oh my God you're also one of these f**king people. Good grief. One minute you're posting well-researched effortposts and the next you're back with the bottom-of-the-barrel dumbass cold takes.

Westphalian sovereignty isn't controversial outside of far-left groups and the boards of multinational corporations. But politics makes strange bedfellows, I suppose.

[John Dule]

Farage's farewell speech. I hope the EU takes his words to heart. The Union is a disingenuous violation of national sovereignty and it needs to be destroyed.

Being a single zebra, even a strong one, is always less strong than being in the herd.

Stopped reading here. Collectivist rhetoric isn't just logically wrong, it's boring and repetitive. You don't even know what you're saying; you're just puking up the BS leftist ideology you've been raised in.

[John Dule]

Farage's farewell speech. I hope the EU takes his words to heart. The Union is a disingenuous violation of national sovereignty and it needs to be destroyed.

Oh my God you're also one of these f**king people. Good grief. One minute you're posting well-researched effortposts and the next you're back with the bottom-of-the-barrel dumbass cold takes.

Westphalian sovereignty isn't controversial outside of far-left groups and the boards of multinational corporations. But politics makes strange bedfellows, I suppose.

The principle of Westphalian sovereignty (the very concept of which originated within an international agreement) can & has been tempered by international agreements, which in & of themselves help to comprise international law! The fact that the UK was able to voluntarily withdraw from the EU treaties is, in & of itself, proof that your argument over 'sovereignty' is, was, & always will be complete & utter nonsense.

Oh please, the EU is not just another international institution. Does NAFTA have a president? Can its courts override the US constitution? Where is the army of ASEAN?

The EU stopped being a representative institution when it rammed the Lisbon treaty through. Macron and Merkel are discussing an EU army. I'm glad the UK got out while it still could. The rest of the member nations need to start feeling the slow boil of the pot they're in, or they'll be forever trapped as vassal states to Germany and France.

We really do need a preemptive ban on Americans posting in the international boards. People who actually know their stuff like Brucejoel can subsequently be let back in, of course.

Does that include banning 51.4% of the British population as well?

[John Dule]

Farage's farewell speech. I hope the EU takes his words to heart. The Union is a disingenuous violation of national sovereignty and it needs to be destroyed.

Oh my God you're also one of these f**king people. Good grief. One minute you're posting well-researched effortposts and the next you're back with the bottom-of-the-barrel dumbass cold takes.

Westphalian sovereignty isn't controversial outside of far-left groups and the boards of multinational corporations. But politics makes strange bedfellows, I suppose.

The principle of Westphalian sovereignty (the very concept of which originated within an international agreement) can & has been tempered by international agreements, which in & of themselves help to comprise international law! The fact that the UK was able to voluntarily withdraw from the EU treaties is, in & of itself, proof that your argument over 'sovereignty' is, was, & always will be complete & utter nonsense.

Oh please, the EU is not just another international institution. Does NAFTA have a president? Can its courts override the US constitution? Where is the army of ASEAN?

The EU stopped being a representative institution when it rammed the Lisbon treaty through. Macron and Merkel are discussing an EU army. I'm glad the UK got out while it still could. The rest of the member nations need to start feeling the slow boil of the pot they're in, or they'll be forever trapped as vassal states to Germany and France.

We really do need a preemptive ban on Americans posting in the international boards. People who actually know their stuff like Brucejoel can subsequently be let back in, of course.

Does that include banning 51.4% of the British population as well?

Again, this isn't a violation of soveriegnty because sovereign states chose to join this instutituion, and can (foolishly) choose to leave. If a new treaty does away with Article 50 or just fully embraces a United States of europe, that doesn't violate national soverignity because sovereign nations choose to agree to it and legitimately cede their sovereignty to the European Union which itself becomes a sovereign state deriving its legitimacy from the will of the European people. By your logic, the USA has no sovereign democratic legitimacy because it was preceded by quasi-sovereign states governed by the Articles of Confederation.

No. You are wrong. The member nations did not hold votes on the Union as it exists today. They joined a common market that has since grown unchecked into a political union. EU elections see abysmal turnout and many of the major positions in the bureaucracy are unelected. To say that the people in the member nations "chose to join" this Union is frankly asinine and a complete misrepresentation of how the EU has expanded its power since its inception. And if the EU does become a United States of Europe (as it is slowly gravitating towards), I'd bet good money that the legitimate qualms of EU citizens will once again go ignored.

[John Dule]

Johnson went around deliberately shaking the hands of Coronavirus patients. How likely do you guys think it is that he gave himself the virus on purpose in order to gain publicity/sympathy and serve as a unifying national figure? It seems like the sort of thing he'd do; Boris loves to take risks and it might all play to his favor.

[John Dule]

In other news, support for Scottish independence has hit 58% in a poll by Ipsos/MORI.

Brexiteers killed the UK. I don't blame Scotland (or Northern Ireland, either) for wanting to choose a brighter future.

If the Scottish think they can just leave the UK and join the EU, they're much dumber than the Brexiteers. Spain will never allow them in; they'll veto anything that lends credence to European independence movements. That said, the EU is very much to blame for this, due to their idiotic "Leave a light on" stance on Scotland. I guess other Eurozone nations now know that the penalty for voluntarily choosing to leave this """trade bloc""" is that the remaining nations will systemically undermine their integrity as sovereign nations. Funny-- you'd think that if leaving the EU were so disastrous, such high penalties wouldn't be necessary as a deterrent!