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Not sure if the argument holds up, but I can see a connection. The antisemitic laws define Jews as a race - if all/nearly all Jews were religious, they wouldn't have had to go to such lengths. A simple discrimination by religion would have sufficed. Of course that's looking at the matter...

Yup. - - - Updated - - - It was such an unecessary gamble in the first place though, the downsides far outweighed the positives from the beginning.

He's still responsible for it in a major way, the whole referendum was his stupid and shortsighted election promise after all.

At least now there's a chance of enough people realising how much of a fraud politicians like Farage & Johnson are. Not that they won't have forgotten it again in 5 years time, but there could be a real window of opportunity opening up now.

And on the most basic level, severing ties with your largest trading partner is never a good idea economically speaking.

Wouldn't necessarily call it nationalistic in the tradional sense when their main promise is gonna be to lead Scotland back into the EU :D

National Socialism still classifies as a form of fascism imo, but that's semantics.

They've done it exactly once, at a time when most of Europe was fascist :D Not to say that National Socialism's reputation isn't fully earned.

For some decisions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_the_Council_of_the_European_Union#Unanimity) - however, that doesn't make it a very fair system of representation either, the head of state of Luxembourg's 500.000 people has the same veto power as Germany's with their 80 million...

Btw this whole mess once again painfully shows one very critical problem of the EU, its democratic legitimacy. A large portion of the people, not only in the UK, simply do not see themselves represented in Brussels, and very often rightfully so. Currently, there is only one EU institution that...

Best case now is a quick Brexit with little treaties, a breakup of the UK, Scotland & maybe even Ireland joining the UK, some serious inter-EU reforms and England rejoining in a couple of years. At least the first two things actually seem to be doable. - - - Updated - - - :tup...

Don't fuck this up Britain, this one's dangerous - - - Updated - - - Seems to be pretty clear judging from the already available results though. Now let's hope that there won't be a strong domino effect. With Le Pen & Co. coming to power in the next few years it's gonnanot looking bright for...

Sadly our foreign minister won't read this post :tup: http://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/austrian-minister-wants-to-replicate-australian-model-for-migrants/

Breaking up the EU would be the single most moronic political decision of the past decades easily. I know that some of the policies pursued by Brussels (mostly led by Germany) the past few years have been everything else but smart, but there really is no solving the problems of the present and...

It is extremely interesting to see how perception of the UK-EU relationship differs on the different sides of the canals. I mean I'd definitely say that GB as a country is definitily benefiting more from the EU than vice versa, especially with all the countless favourable exceptions it has...

It's a mixture of different factors for sure, but to blame most of the problems on Islam is short sighted imo, it's incredibly difficult to make out the single most important contribution to the whole mess in general. If we're talking about ISIS specifically, the US invasion of Iraq 2003 simply...

On the other hand, when you've seen how every military intervention in the region has brought much more problems than it solved, simply not intervening at all seems like a much better option than most of the alternatives. True.

The fact that he's basically regarded as Marx reincarnated tells you a lot about how far to the right the political centre has shifted during the past few decades.