elpenguino:

 

You can disagree if you want, but do you have a rational explanation to do so?

 

In some cases what is best for me is not best for my neighbour and vice versa. But we work together and try to head in the same direction. Scale that idea up and you have central national government. A system in which those in otago live under the same rules as those in auckland, even if it means they can't marry their sisters.

 

That's a joke by the way.

 

I'm in favour of scaling up beyond national governments as I feel it's the only way we'll solve some of the world's problems. Of course this will be difficult when we have the idea of the nation state and with it 'patriotism'.

 

I just don't see what's so great about being English that the English think they aren't that anymore, and will be again when they drop out of the EU.

 

 

 

I grew up being European, I've always been for a federal Europe, what we have though is a farce of a system where unelected bureaucrats run a 'government' that tells duly elected national governments what laws, what taxes and tariffs (on NZ products) to enact and what subsidies each nation must pay to French farmers etc... If the MEPs were legislators as in all legitimate (western) governments, I'd have voted remain plain and simple.

I voted National (basically a Blairite party) in the last election and all previous that I was eligible for as they're as close to the UK Labour party that I grew up with (post 1992), I accept they lost and even though I might moan a little..., democracy is more important to me than anything else, so I accept the government we have and the policies they enact.

I'm sorry, but there'll probably never be a 'world' government as a lot of nations, tribes, communities will never accept laws, powers etc in the hands of those they'll never see eye to eye with.

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