The thing I was always most struck with this on was on empire.

Real Europeans - Verhofstadt, Sikorski - see the EU as a means to create a European « empire » capable of exerting sovereignty on others.

FBPE though see it as essentially a large NGO - save the children with money.

The good thing is that we know this isn't the case!

Defence sector consolidation has grew rapidly by 10pp per decade for the top-5 contractors, but there's no evidence it increased government procurement costs.

The monopsony power of the government in defence is too strong.

Going on hunger strike to demand everyone closes the only industry available and has to go hungry 😎✌️

French government has announced its plan to introduce a 'rabbit tax', a discretionary fine of 5€ on people who miss GP appointments without giving notice. Estimated to eliminate 15-20mn missed appointments

Would you support this charge in your country and what is your ideology?

62% for a smoking ban. 52% for legalising weed. Make it make sense.

People really hate to see successful women winning and it’s really sad.

It’s perfectly legitimate for politicians to tell journalists their dumb questions are dumb actually

Did Amnesty International write this headline

Italy may have just dropped the worst electoral list in human history.

19 political parties ranging from greens and animal rights activists, to anti-vaxxers, separatists, nationalists, boomers' rights, and street vendors.

So cursed.

Fair Trial - A39 Magna Carta 1215
Privacy - Entick v Carrington 1765
No-Torture - Bill of Rights 1689
Religious Freedom - Promissory Oaths Act 1871
Non-Discrimination - A40 Magna Carta 1215
No-Slavery - Somerset v Stewart 1772
No-Domestic Violence - Leigh's Case 1674

ECHR - 1953

Hard to think of anyone who's fumbled the bag more than Norwegian Labour right now.

3.6% unemployment rate, 19.8% of GDP budget surplus, running a larger trade surplus than Germany, yet it's still on track for its worst ever showing.

'It's not foreign, it's international' is maybe not the killer line FBPE thinks it is.

The fundamental question here is who should set the Swiss governments policy. Should it be Jessica Simor or should it be the Swiss people who collected 110,000 signatures and then voted by 51.59% to reject the CO2-Gesetz?

What looks more like dictatorship? Simor or the Swiss?

Both the SVP (largest Swiss political party) and Pro-Schweiz (most successful Swiss campaign organisation) labelling the ECHR's decision as 'foreign courts directing Swiss democracy' and calling for quitting the Council of Europe.

Some sort of ECHR referendum likely.

Craziest thing about the ECHR judgement is that it directly seeks to override the Swiss people's vote.

In June 2021, in a referendum the Swiss people voted against the measures that this group of activists are demanding by 51.59%.

Quite literally now foreign Judges v Democracy.

As far as the NHS is concerned people are completely delusional.

There are *15,400 more* EU workers in the NHS than before Brexit.

As for the PPE meme, NHS spending once Covid residuals have been removed is still up £35bn in real terms since 2016.