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Telegram Sam
Potentially. I read last week that the party that wants independence for Catalonia is going to fall short of a majority in the regional elections. Not sure what implications that has for Scotland though.
Mr Willy
Sears
Sears
According to the BBC they're going to fall short of a majority.
Mr Willy
Ninja
That's been fairly common knowledge for ages.
It's why it's so funny Salmond talks so much about the EU and using the Euro because it's unlikely that they'll be let in.
tmatthew
Franck
I'm not totally familiar with what voting procedure the EU uses, but I feel pretty certain that they don't require an absolute majority for something to pass.
Ninja
IIRC there's two type of votes in the EU. One requires majorities and the other requires unanimous agreement, this is because EU decisions occasionally require the sovereignty of member states to be over-written and no state would sign up to the EU if decisions could be taken that transfers power from their capital to Brussels if they didn't want that to be the case. The European constitution vote failed for this reason and the Lisbon treaty nearly failed because Ireland initially rejected it.
Therefore, again off the top of my head, I imagine membership is an issue where unanimity is required so yes, Spain could veto.
Torri
http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/48326/2/teachers_to_go_on_strike.html
http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/48369/10/thousands_of_teachers_protest_in_bratislava.html
http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/48372/10/teachers_strike_continues_some_schools_resume_normal_schedules.html
The government has enough money for their pockets, but not enough money for education. That is more than sick. Health, education & infrastructure are three main things they should invest to. They just talk about investing there, but when one government does something, the next government tears it and swears on the previous government how wrong they did, how expensive it was, and blah blah.
Franck
All democracies work like that.
Torri
I don't know if this fact is satisfying or disappointing for me.
DB
Mr Willy
Obtuse
Delusional springs to mind. The current form of Government is all about keeping the poor down and the rich in power an nothing will change for the good
Mr Willy
Phoenix Arrow
Mr Willy
Phoenix Arrow
As for me, I basically just think Noam Chomsky is a cool guy.
Jamieandhisego
That makes you a libertarian socialist/anarchist, like myself.
Slashman X
Loyalists demanding respect for their flag by burning the tricolour in front of Belfast City Hall
The whole thing is fucking stupid anyway
Bald Ninja
Sinn Fein are a party founded upon hatred, it has seen one of their ministers being found to have acted with religious discrimination in a job application and they continue to give public positions to those who have carried out killings and who do not have the credentials to act in such a position. They want a border poll, which would be a waste of public money, on the basis that the overwhelming majority of people in NI (which includes a significant amount of Catholics) want to retain the status quo. They have no policies regarding real issues and that's why they have to resort to these classical issues. They have been in charge of Education for the past decade and it is now in disarray. They were in charge of Regional Development and the Water service went tits up. The members elected have no credentials, they don't know how to make the economy work, they don't have a clue about education, health, development.
The idea of respect has to work on both sides, instead of dealing with real issues and problems they have brought this flag issue to the forefront. I actually don't care whether the flag has to fly all year round or not. I care about it being made into an issue of equality, which it is not. Imagine it happened in a different city, like London or Dublin were the people said they weren't British/Irish and said they didn't want the flag to be flown on that basis. It's madness. The flag of the country should just fly and if the constitutional issue is changed then the flag should change. But equality requires that it be done...
Phoenix Arrow
Slashman X
EU Minister came out today and said the UK can't pick and choose which rules apply to them so I'm genuinely curious as I know fuck all about this stuff
Mr Willy
And presumably yes, we'll need a visa to get across to France or Ireland, or elsewhere in mainland Europe, unless there are visa exemptions for British citizens. Personally, I'm not the EU's biggest defender, but full withdrawal does worry me.
Then again, I doubt we'll even get to the referendum. It's contingent on there being an agreed 'new settlement' for Britain in the EU, and a Conservative majority government in 2015, given that neither Labour nor the Liberal Democrats want a referendum.
Slashman X
That's where that 'quote' about not being able to pick and choose what applies to them comes him. The French minister said something like 'the EU is not an a la carte where you decide what to have and what not to have'
Regarding the visa's, I was discussing this last night and saying if that were to be a consequence I could see a push for the 6 counties in NI to sort something out, because border patrol form ROI to NI would be incredibly difficult to sort out (although it will probably end up just not being enforced or something), unless I'm misunderstanding.
Would the UK leaving the EU not encourage Scotland (and possibly, at a very large stretch due to visa point above, NI) pushing even harder for independence from UK?
Telegram Sam
Mr Willy
bluemoon.
Fantastic