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Many of us will know about the AfD but I thought it worthwhile to link Dr. Alice Weidel's Wikipedia page so that anyone who watched that clip can get a better idea of her if they want one:
Quite a pro-EU stance for you and she wants to keep the United Kingdom in. pickles, but the AfD are very dubious in my view, see this from their Wikipedia page:
'The party has been described as a German nationalist, right-wing populist, and Eurosceptic party. Since about 2015, the AfD has been increasingly open to working with far-right extremist groups such as Pegida. Parts of the AfD have racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and xenophobic tendencies linked to far-right movements such as neo-Nazism and identitarianism.'
Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 10:06 - Mar 31 by WeWereZombies
Many of us will know about the AfD but I thought it worthwhile to link Dr. Alice Weidel's Wikipedia page so that anyone who watched that clip can get a better idea of her if they want one:
Quite a pro-EU stance for you and she wants to keep the United Kingdom in. pickles, but the AfD are very dubious in my view, see this from their Wikipedia page:
'The party has been described as a German nationalist, right-wing populist, and Eurosceptic party. Since about 2015, the AfD has been increasingly open to working with far-right extremist groups such as Pegida. Parts of the AfD have racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and xenophobic tendencies linked to far-right movements such as neo-Nazism and identitarianism.'
It does reinforce that if the EU had listened to David none of this farce needed to happen.
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Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 10:54 - Mar 31 with 1549 views
Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 10:06 - Mar 31 by WeWereZombies
Many of us will know about the AfD but I thought it worthwhile to link Dr. Alice Weidel's Wikipedia page so that anyone who watched that clip can get a better idea of her if they want one:
Quite a pro-EU stance for you and she wants to keep the United Kingdom in. pickles, but the AfD are very dubious in my view, see this from their Wikipedia page:
'The party has been described as a German nationalist, right-wing populist, and Eurosceptic party. Since about 2015, the AfD has been increasingly open to working with far-right extremist groups such as Pegida. Parts of the AfD have racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic and xenophobic tendencies linked to far-right movements such as neo-Nazism and identitarianism.'
At what point will the EU be held responsible/questioned on its culpability in creating/enabling the environment(like all our political institutions they serve corporate capital not workers) for allowing this right wing populism to thrive,(or are they considered blameless?) never mind inviting it in from the former Eastern bloc....we still await the joys of Ukraine.
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 10:32 - Mar 31 by pickles110564
It does reinforce that if the EU had listened to David none of this farce needed to happen.
I doubt whether a few more concessions (which is what Cameron seemed to be after) would have silenced those hell bent on taking us out of the European Union.
For what it is worth, and having just read the Hegel chapter in 'History of Western Philosophy' I am a bit alert to nationalism dressed up as philosophy, I think this Dr. Weidel is only happy for Germany to stay in the European Union if everyone else does what the Germans tells them to (Club-Med countries indeed, and all the pokes at France when some would say that the Franco-German alliance is what is wrong with Europe). Now that is a problem that I can understand causing people to vote Leave. Although if we do leave, and there are multiple contradictions in the clip and she also inadvertently gives the reasons why her ideas will not work, the loss of the United Kingdom as counterweight will only make the problem worse.
Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 10:54 - Mar 31 by BanksterDebtSlave
At what point will the EU be held responsible/questioned on its culpability in creating/enabling the environment(like all our political institutions they serve corporate capital not workers) for allowing this right wing populism to thrive,(or are they considered blameless?) never mind inviting it in from the former Eastern bloc....we still await the joys of Ukraine.
So the European Union are to blame for right wing populism in the United States?
Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 10:32 - Mar 31 by pickles110564
It does reinforce that if the EU had listened to David none of this farce needed to happen.
If you look at some of the things that happened in the EU since 2008 you can see they were ahead of Cameron His failure was to sign up to the far right who wanted to dismantle the EU Most of the brexit noise about immigration etc. has already been dealt with in European courts & had thetories enacted the 'Freedom of Movement' as set out in EU legislation the brexit case could not have been made That's it isn't it ?
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Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 12:23 - Mar 31 with 1493 views
Worth a watch whatever side of the Brexit debate you are on. on 14:37 - Mar 31 by BanksterDebtSlave
You appear to be going off on a tangent. Maybe Jess Phillips has convinced him that the EU represents a force for socialist Internationalism!!!
Do not think I am, there are radical differences between the unbridled capitalism that holds sway in the USA, my go to source Wikipedia has this on it's Economy of the United States page:
'A central feature of the U.S. economy is the economic freedom afforded to the private sector by allowing the private sector to make the majority of economic decisions in determining the direction and scale of what the U.S. economy produces.'
Compare with:
'The European Union economy consists of an internal market of mixed economies based on free market and advanced social models (defined as 'The European social model is a common vision many European states have for a society that combines economic growth with high living standards and good working conditions. Historian Tony Judt has argued that the European social model "binds Europe together" in contrast to the 'American way of life')'
No doubt this will not be enough for you but I have been travelling for three weeks and I am tired now, just consider how the welfare state is applied in most European countries to the demeaning concept of welfare in the USA ('Some states still offer basic assistance, such as health care, food assistance, child care assistance, unemployment, a few offering cash aid, and one or two offering housing assistance, depending on the state and the circumstance. After reforms, which President Clinton said would "end welfare as we know it,")'.
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