Polexit: what now?

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Poland should be booted out of the EU.
They signed the agreements; EU law overrules national law on various points.

It’s good to see you standing up for the Poles’ rights to be homophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-female and all other variations of right-wing nationalist agendas.

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Crawl back to your democratically elected house of lords and ponder the sin of hypocrisy.

Actually, not just hypocrisy, when one comes to think of it.
Misleading an audience, springs to mind too; considering the EU is a democratic institution. That some English people and nazis in Europe can’t comprehend the layers, is neither here nor there.

When you sign an international treaty… does that overrule national legislation? Yes. Obviously. Otherwise a nation wouldn’t sign up to the treaty if they didn’t want it to be binding for all parties.

Poland has signed up to EU law, which is roughly the same as the UN declaration on human rights.
The core difference being the UN declaration is non-binding, EU law is a treaty (and is therefore binding).

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How is life without the EU?
Still driving around and eating fish?

@shavixmir said
How is life without the EU?
Still driving around and eating fish?

So you believe countries should sell their sovereignty?

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Yeah all they have to do is not take money from a pot that is mainly filled by people who don’t think it’s ok to discriminate against someone on the basis of sexual orientation.

@eladar said
So you believe countries should sell their sovereignty?

What’s sovereignty to you?

Many EU regulations stipulate that members can make their own laws on the subject.
Some don’t. These are generally laws about human rights (like privacy) or agreed upon quotas.

Passports, border controls, criminal law, etc. Are all up to individual nations. So long as they adhere to the principles of EU law (so you can’t give homosexuals a death penalty, for example).

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Why though why don’t you think the common values of Western Europe are worth defending.
I won’t be sorry to see Poland go along with Hungary because I think it will strengthen and focus the EU not because I think it will weaken them. If their people decide that their religious beliefs give them the right to force their moral dogma based codex on others then they will probably be more comfortable in Putins sphere of influence anyway.
I think they should leave NATO as well because as they veer back to the east and Moscow they will weaken that organisation as well.
Perhaps the EUs biggest mistake was their eastern expansion.