UK election

@divegeester said
Well congratulations to the Swiss on being able to navigate all those “complex” bilateral treaties whilst NOT being in the club; which is what the europhiles told us Brexiteers was “impossible” and which the Tories have effectively tried to demonstrate is the truth, with their deliberate mismanagement of the UK’s opportunity to do. Now we are lumbered with an unloved Labo ...[text shortened]... bout are the working people of this country who are getting financially gouged by other rich people.

The Swiss have a saying: in a country with fair and transparent taxation, there is no capital flight. The problem is on the other side of the border, not in Switzerland.

@A-Unique-Nickname said
It's not uncommon for countries to have more than one round of voting, get rid of the parties who aren't going to win and end up with the top two parties.

France, for example.

@moonbus said
The Swiss have a saying: in a country with fair and transparent taxation, there is no capital flight. The problem is on the other side of the border, not in Switzerland.

Maybe that saying should be: where the super rich can avoid tax, they make their home.

@divegeester said
Sounds familiar!

And again, my congratulations on having a government who made it work with the EU and kept immigration under control despite being landlocked by EU countries. We’ve got at least 22 miles of dangerous hyper busy waters between us and the first EU country, the North Sea, the Icelandic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean on the other sides and our bunch of incompetents still can’t make it work.

Britain needs Reform.

Actually you’re closer to the EU than you think, at least NI is: you can plant one foot in the UK and the other in the EU right there on the Irish border.

Yes, the UK needs to reform a number of things, including the voting system. Brexit wouldn’t have fixed that, even it had fixed what it was supposed to have fixed and didn’t.

@moonbus said
Actually you’re closer to the EU than you think, at least NI is: you can plant one foot in the UK and the other in the EU right there on the Irish border.

Yes, the UK needs to reform a number of things, including the voting system. Brexit wouldn’t have fixed that, even it had fixed what it was supposed to have fixed and didn’t.

People flooding across the Irish border to the UK isn’t a problem. Although some of the Irish do have complaints about immigration themselves.

Brexit wasn’t delivered in any way whatsoever; the Tories let the potential opportunity fail.

You might be better off campaigning to get your own country into the EU if you feel that having some of your major national decisions made/controlled by that foreign government it’s so wonderful.