As Britishland totters on the edge of Brexit/ No-Brexit/ Hard Brexit/ Soft Brexit/ Whatever-Brexit, it behooves us to remember just why they hate the EU enough to want to leave its clutches warm embrace.
Example #1: Control
‘Intelligent speed assistance’ is at the centre of a European road-safety shake-up.
These systems are capable of automatically stopping cars from exceeding the limit or cutting the speed if they pass into a slower zones. But the Department of Transport insists that mandatory systems will not physically slow a car.
It says drivers will simply be alerted by a dashboard light and an audio alert, similar to existing warnings when seatbelts are left unfastened.
The technology will have to be installed in all new cars from May 2022 and in existing models two years later. Other features include automatic emergency braking and a system which keeps a vehicle in the centre of a traffic lane.
The EU Commission claims the mandatory devices could help avoid 140,000 serious injuries by 2038.
Note the weasel word “could”. The infernal things “could” also cause still more deaths from equipment failure, because none of this shit has ever been tested, yet.
Example #2: Hobbling the Internet
The directive, which passed by 348 votes to 274, seeks to update the EU’s copyright legislation in light of recent technological changes. Its most controversial elements, passed much more narrowly, are Article 11, a “link tax” requiring social networks and news aggregators to pay publishers to display snippets of their output, and most of all Article 13, an “upload filter” making larger online publishers like YouTube responsible for copyright infringements in material uploaded by their users.
This is akin to the “holding gun manufacturers responsible because a few assholes murder people with guns” rationale.
Example #3: Unstable currency
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told a Paris conference that the currency union ‘is not resilient enough’ to emerge unscathed from ‘unexpected economic storms’.
Lagarde acknowledged that the currency union was now ‘more resilient than a decade ago when the global financial crisis struck.
‘But it is not resilient enough,’ she said. ‘Its banking system is safer, but not safe enough. Its economic well-being is greater overall, but the benefits of growth are not shared enough,’ Lagarde told the gathering, which was organised by the French central bank.
The warning comes as signs are multiplying of slower economic growth, especially in powerhouse Germany and the bloc’s second-biggest economy, France.
On Friday, indications of a weak first quarter for the eurozone mounted as a closely-watched survey pointed to March output being dragged further down by manufacturing weakness.
Manufacturers in the 19-nation single currency bloc ‘reported their steepest downturn for six years’ as pressure mounted from trade wars and Brexit fears, data company IHS Markit said.
This is what happens when you couple one or two “strong” economies (Krautland, Frogland) to fucked-up economies (Eytieland, Spicland, Porroland etc.) and expect good results.
So the Brits want out of all this shit (they’re quite capable of fucking their country up all by themselves, without any assistance), and no wonder.
The only thing which still puzzles me is why a “hard” Brexit — in essence, just telling the Europigs to FOAD — is seen as a Bad Thing for the UK. I’m sure there’s some sophisticated response to that simple question, but as said response would only come from the turds who lost the Brexit referendum (a.k.a. the Remoaners Remainers), I think we’re safe in ignoring it, and them.
In example 3 the weasel word is “shared” (line 8) and in example 2 the weasel idea is that retarded notion of holding people accountable for the behavior of others, and defying science by making inanimate objects responsible for anything at all.
What you see here, once again, is a small group of people demonstrating tyrannical behavior against a large group of people and the large group has no direct and immediate way to legally stop this from happening. The only solution is outside the law and requires violence. The schoolyard bullies have grown up and protected themselves with walls built from the proceeds stolen from their victims.
Thinking people know that some day this will end, and maybe in their lifetime.
But then it will start all over again. For the children….
The fun thing about Article 13 is that it will effectively require a filter on upload (that is, you hit Send/Post/whatever, and your image or post gets scanned right then), but the EU keeps insisting that it won’t really. (“We’re not saying you *must* apply an upload filter”. But there’s no way to meet the law’s requirements without one.)
If you think that we might feel betrayed by our Ruling Class, you are absooolutely correct. Anyone who has had anything whatsoever to do with the EU and is over the age of 16, will recognise instantly what a con game the entire thing is. Full to the gills with crooks and freeloaders, (and worse). Back in the 70’s when we had the previous referendum as to whether to stay in or not. I voted to get as far away as possible from that gang of bloodsucking freeloaders. (By the way, I have no objection, whatsoever to the immigration of foreign nationals, who want to better themselves, are productive and obey our laws and wish to fit into our society). I believe that the old adage of “follow the money” points to why our Parliament and Civil Service want to stay in, against the will of the majority, they’re coining it in!
“These systems are capable of automatically stopping cars from exceeding the limit or cutting the speed if they pass into a slower zones. But the Department of Transport insists that mandatory systems will not physically slow a car.”
Thereby contradicting themselves… But that’s only to be expected from the EU criminals in charge.
“The technology will have to be installed in all new cars from May 2022 and in existing models two years later.”
Wonder if that means mandatory retrofitting (at owner expense of course) in all existing cars or whether it means that new cars without it will no longer be allowed to be manufactured.
Knowing the thinking of the eurocrats I assume they want it retrofitted even in 50 year old cars with no electronics at all, effectively outlawing classics.
“Article 13, an “upload filter” making larger online publishers like YouTube responsible for copyright infringements in material uploaded by their users.”
Not just larger, any online service. And they’ll no doubt interpret it as applying to hosting providers as well that have no control over the content uploaded by their customers at all, effectively making it impossible for them to continue to offer their services to EU denizens.