Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Martinus]

I am saying that idiotic, unilateral German policies on refugees showed the weakness of Schengen (and generally, free movement of people) - the fact that if one country lets in all kinds of rabble, everybody else then has to contend with it.

And I am saying that Eastern Europeans voting for PiS or Fidesz and those governments not embracing any of the values of the EU, among the solidarity and basic human rights, is what is harming the EU. There doesn't seem to be much point in further political projects with the Visegrad group.

And the (mis)handling of the refugee crisis by Germany substantially helped PiS win with such a large margin in Poland. And it has also helped the Brexit vote and is boosting anti-EU elements (such as AfD, FN and others) in Western countries.

[Zanza]

Must be convenient to blame your own shitty political developments on foreign politicians.

[Syt]

Must be convenient to blame your own shitty political developments on foreign politicians.

It's the Russian thing to do.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Must be convenient to blame your own shitty political developments on foreign politicians.

I think you're vastly underestimating the amount of ill-will Merkel created by her demarche, and not only in the east.

[alfred russel]

Must be convenient to blame your own shitty political developments on foreign politicians.

The traditional scapegoat isn't so numerous in europe these days; adjustments need to be made.

[Valmy]

Must be convenient to blame your own shitty political developments on foreign politicians.

The traditional scapegoat isn't so numerous in europe these days; adjustments need to be made.

Huh? There are still plenty of Americans in....oh I get it.

[Zanza]

Must be convenient to blame your own shitty political developments on foreign politicians.

I think you're vastly underestimating the amount of ill-will Merkel created by her demarche, and not only in the east.

I think you're vastly overestimating how much we care.

[Valmy]

I think you're vastly overestimating how much we care.

Spoken like a true German.

[celedhring]

Merkel's refugee policy actually improved her image quite a bit in Spain, where she was universally despised until then. 

[mongers]

Ongoing conflict within the Tory party or at least reaction against her tack to the right, for the 2nd day in a row my local MP has been on openly critical of May's new policies, yesterday in the Commons challenging her grammar school plans and today on the BBC defending the overseas aid budget; my MP is Desmond Swayne former PPS to and friend of David Cameron. 

[Duque de Bragança]

So Mongers, how was this UKIP conference in your heck of woods/Lebensraum of Bournemouth? I mean locally. Or did you just avoided it like the plague? 

[mongers]

So Mongers, how was this UKIP conference in your heck of woods/Lebensraum of Bournemouth? I mean locally. Or did you just avoided it like the plague? 

Luckily the political party I dislike the most held their conference in the town I like the least, so I didn't need to sweat it. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

Bournemouth is one of those really odd places, no real point to it, but for some unfathomable reason 350,000 people live there 

[mongers]

Bournemouth is one of those really odd places, no real point to it, but for some unfathomable reason 350,000 people live there 

God's waiting room?

[Tamas]

Fico, the Slovakian PM has been talking though, at one hand he declared that the Visegradians are going to veto any deal with the UK that reduces the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and that it is important that the EU makes sure, the UK will be worse off outside than inside, to show an example of what happens when somebody leaves