Yes, the sun did set, around the time that people's "rights" started trumping their duties. The duties were corporatised, so that abstract corporations, be they private or public, had duties to people, whereas people only had rights, not duties.thommot wrote:The sun did actually set.
Oh, just you wait a few more years and most governments in the EU will be acting like bitches to the EU. The Polish government is already at odds with the EU and there is a chance that the whole Visegard group will be moving in that direction. Even if we vote to Remain, there is no reason why the government be sweet to an organisation that nearly half the voters would vote against.thommot wrote:Only the Tories have not realised it yet, and are acting like bitches to the EU.
The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, recognised that. “It is us who today are responsible,” he said, speaking at a conclave of Christian-Democrat and centre-right leaders in Luxembourg. “Obsessed with the idea of instant and total integration, we failed to notice that ordinary people, the citizens of Europe, do not share our Euro-enthusiasm.”
Funnily enough, a Brexit will almost certainly also mean that the EU is unlikely to have any treaty changes of its own for the foreseeable future, because even a founding member such as the Netherlands is likely to lose a referendum on further treaty change.
On a lighter note, Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that most bestiality is legal. I wonder what the world's bitches feel about that.