[Info-vax] The changing world

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <t9oebd$2h1kl$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:

> I didn't pay much attention, as it would not affect me.  But from the little I 
> read about, it seemed that the EU was intent on forcing their concepts on 
> everyone.  It seems that many in GB would not accept some things, and therefore 
> left.

Seems to harsh on the EU.  Members of a club have to play by the rules.  
If they don't like it, they can leave.  My main criticism of Brexit is 
that it was not decided in a proper democratic way in any sense of the 
term.  Aside from that, people and nations can decide what they want to 
belong to.  But if they choose to leave, they have to bear the 
consequences.  No having one's cake and eating it too.

> But what puzzles me is that others, Poland, Hungary, maybe others, stay, but 
> ignore the EU when they choose to do so, and they seem to get away with it.

Poland has rolled back on it justice reform due to EU pressure.  They 
can leave if they want to, but they won't, because they benefit from it. 
So not going along with the rules is just to see how far they can push 
it.  Unfortunately, some decisions have to be unanimous.  Good rule back 
in the day, not now.  Some countries abuse that rule to get what they 
want (same with NATO and Turkey.)

> So I wonder, why did GB have to toe the line so closely?

It didn't.