With a US president who talks of making Canada the 51st state, its leader in Europe where it’s not quite the EU’s 28th state on offer, but something the president of the European Commission is calling ‘associate membership’. We’ll ask what that means, how it differs from the close status afforded to the likes of Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK which Carney’s also visiting ahead of his own Strasbourg speech Thursday before the European Parliament.
I am in the UK and older right wing people talk about Brussels like it’s a CIA black site.
Around the time of Brexit, I was applying to work at some kind of concrete warehouse with an R&D aspect to it (I don’t remember). I should have needed specialist qualifications but the owner only wanted to charge minimum wage, and was getting a consistent stream of people who wanted job seekers allowance and not to work in a labour intensive, skill demanding, potentially toxic environment for nothing. I was one of these people.
During my interview, the company owner talked entirely about why he wanted to Brexit, to avoid the regulations of ⚡Brussels⚡, and because he wanted to hire less Romanians??
He offered me the job, even though I basically said and did nothing for 45 minutes except hear him rant. I declined and did mention to him that no employee wants to work for a place that wants less regulations. They’ve shut down now, no surprise.