Comments on: Leading London law firm acts to stop British government from triggering Article 50 without Act of Parliament

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:29:00 +0000

If the EU is corrupt, that means the UK is corrupt. How does leaving the EU solve that problem?

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:29:00 +0000

Ah, that is where you are COMPLETELY wrong. Read this:

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/07/referendum-people-stripped-rights-fundamentally-wrong/

I am against referendums to begin with. A referendum which confers rights and freedoms which people did not have already is bad enough (a referendum on joining the EU, for instance). But a referendum which strips away rights and freedoms which citizens have enjoyed for their entire lives is fundamentally unacceptable.

Nobody should be given the ability to vote to strip others of their rights and freedoms. If the divorce referendum in Malta had returned a vote against, rather than a vote for, I would of course have encouraged incoming Prime Minister Muscat to ignore it. How can you have a country with no divorce legislation in the 21st century? There should have been no referendum. Parliament should simply have done its duty and legislated for divorce.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:22:00 +0000

I live in the European Union. And I have also lived outside it. I know which is better, through experience. People my age in Britain are about to find out, too.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:21:00 +0000

They can’t bully the governments of other EU member states, for reasons that are obvious. We are not talking about developing countries here. Those are third countries and nothing to do with EU citizens or their rights to representation.

Greece created its own problems, and everybody else had to carry the can. Bullying Greece, my eye.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:05:00 +0000

Yes, except that in western civilisation, we do not have government by the people, but government by the people’s representatives.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:04:00 +0000

“The EU” can’t bully governments because those governments ARE the EU. You have succumbed to the fictitious notion of “the EU” as some external coterie that tells everybody what to do. When “the EU” meets in Brussels, those meetings are composed of the heads of governments (or foreign ministers, environment ministers, etc of those national governments) of all EU member states.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:04:00 +0000

Oh really? Well, however terrible the consequences, they will be a lot less terrible than the consequences of the UK pulling out of the EU.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 08:01:00 +0000

Rubbish. The major flaw in your argument is that you have subscribed to the irrationality of the post-factual society. There IS such a think as objective truth and fact which exist regardless of opinion. The problem here is that the UK’s situation in or out of the European Union has been made a matter of opinion, when it is not a matter of opinion but a matter of fact. Matters which can be objectively analysed as a matter of fact should never be put to a referendum vote and turned into a matter of opinion, with both for and against regarded as equal.

All objective and expert analysis is clear on the matter that leaving the EU is bad for the UK, so clearly this is not “a matter of opinion”.

And once you mention Malta referendums, I have already written several times that I was against them all, most particularly the referendum on divorce legislation. Was divorce legislation an option or a matter of opinion? Of course it wasn’t. It had to be done. So why was it turned into a matter of opinion by putting it to a referendum vote? And yes, if the vote had gone against divorce legislation it is obvious that it would have to be ignored. What was the alternative – leaving Malta without divorce legislation till kingdom come?

By: callixtus

callixtus — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:38:00 +0000

The President of the European parliament is chosen by the directly elected MEPs, as in any democratically elected parliament (in un-democratic Malta he is chosen by the Prime Minister probably in some form of tit-for-tat).
Before you parrot idiotic Eurosceptic misinformation check your facts.

By: callixtus

callixtus — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:34:00 +0000

In reply to Brother_Louis. The Eu does not organise referenda. National governments do.