Austrian Elections

[Pannonian]

At least there is no pretence at neutrality here.

Are you referring to Corbyn, who is an ardent Brexiteer but lacking the morals to explicitly state it?
May, a longtime remainer who is either putting the democratic wishes of the people over her own, or a shameless power hungry politician?

I think as always you are willfully trying to link what I want with those who are proponents of it. It is rather pathetic and very wearisome. I detest Farage. Boris is a typical self serving politician who appears to back Brexit since it might offer the high office he wants.

Can you grasp this beyond your blinkered yearning to expunge on all views that differ to yours?

I remain a strong proponent of the Germanic nations and wish the UK was more like them. Actions such as this to me demonstrate that my admiration is well deserved - since I see little if any evidence of this approach in the UK.

I think staying close to Germany and the other EU countries is more effective in getting us to be more like them. The proponents of Brexit have said that they want to move us towards the US and even east Asian model of deregulation. The implementation of Brexit shows that this is the route we will be going. Why do you persist is saying that you admire the former, whilst concretely supporting the latter? If A does what you say you admire, whilst B wants to do the opposite of what you say you admire, shouldn't you be supporting A and opposing B?

I think that, with our mindset, the EU, for all its faults, is the closest model we have towards greening our economy, reducing waste and corruption, and everything else. If we can rely more on our society and politicians to adhere to ideal mores, then Japan may be a better model. But we're not like that, so the EU is the best we have. The faction opposing the EU wants to be like the US. That is what we'll be heading towards once we've cut loose from the EU.

[Furunculus]

Japan may be a better model. But we're not like that, so the EU is the best we have.

how apposite that you should say this, as the basic premise turns out to be the prime motivator for me to reject ever-closer-union (within the eu):

I am a negative-liberty classical liberal, believing in:

The market economy rather than social democracy
Taxation to achieve public services rather redistribution
Regulation by demonstrable-harm rather than the precautionary-principle
An activist foreign policy rather than platitudes about soft-power
A majoritarian electoral system with adversarial politics rather than coalitions and consensus politics

EU membership might suit those who take the opposite view, but I see it as a ratchet that ceaslessly works to lever british society from the norms that are my preference.

[edyzmedieval]

The whole Austria saga does remind me of something - when people are caught red handed in these kinds of things, the honorable and required thing to do is to resign. Which, to their credit, they did. FPO could have stayed on and brushed it aside.