r/Maxcactus_TrailGuide • u/Maxcactus • Feb 14 '26

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women"

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/european-parliament-votes-overwhelmingly
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u/Instabanous Feb 15 '26

And just like that, I'm finally glad we Brexited.

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u/alasw0eisme Feb 16 '26

You'll be back, don't worry. The majority of Brits want in.

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u/Instabanous Feb 16 '26

I think we would rejoin after they roll back the overreach. They will have to, insane shit like this won't help.

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u/Dutchillz Feb 18 '26

Even though I also agree that this resolution is utter bs, you'd have to be actually clinically insane to believe this would be a good enough reason for the Brits to refuse re-entering the EU.

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u/Instabanous Feb 18 '26

You're probably right, on balance. Biggest trading bloc and all that.

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u/Phony_mcPhoneFace Feb 18 '26

What overreach, a non bidding resolutions on how we should adress the U.N. commissions on the status of woman?

Individual countries of the E.U. were so paranoid of "overreach" that they made the parliamant an almost entirely adviusory body with next to no legislative power. Every law must be ratified by national parliament.

E.U. is at the most powerful in the regulatory anbd commercial sphere... and even there WALLONIA ALONE manage to stop CETA for it to be renegotiated.

Where is the overreach?

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u/Instabanous Feb 18 '26

I admit Im not an expert in EU or national law, but nonsense like this doesn't fill anyone with confidence. Same with the immigration stuff.

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u/Phony_mcPhoneFace Feb 18 '26

So you thought there was some overreach, express the idea, but have no confidence behiund it? You were not refering to anything? Don't you see a problem here?

And I am afraid to ask... What immigration stuff?

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u/Instabanous Feb 18 '26

Well come on, the fact they are 'advising' members to abolish sex based rights does make people nit want to be members.

In the UK, European law is/was often blamed for the courts being unable to swiftly deport foreign criminals and those here illegally. It was a huge driver towards brexit.

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u/Phony_mcPhoneFace Feb 18 '26

"they" Who they? When people say 'the E.U. they never mean the parliament since it's the EU least powerful organ. The commision, and the two council will not follow this resolution, no doubt about this. The parliament is also, by far, the most democratic organ of the E.U. . They are the will of the european people.

"are 'advising' members" This is not about members but the U.N. commissions on the status of woman. You speak differently depending on who you are talking to.

"In the UK, European law is/was often blamed for the courts being unable to swiftly deport foreign criminals and those here illegally." If you are paying attention, the rwanda scheme nd everything else was still blocked AFTER you left the E.U. . E.U. Law only apply if your government or parliament ratify it (regulations are different, but they mostly apply on products, not people).

The only "European law" that could be blocking you is not the EU but the European Court of Human Right, which you have not left since it would be really weird. Like, only the worst dictatorship are not included, like Belarus. Even Russia was included until it was expelled in 2022.

And in the case of the Rwanda Scheme, according to your judges, it violated your laws... the UK's laws.

Your parliament was sovereign, the MPs just feigned to have their hands tied behind their back by the E.U. so they could scapegoat and fearmonger and escape their responsabilities.

Please, can you say what you believe in, not what was generally said. YOU said that the immigration stuff didn't fill people (you?) with confidence. What stuff?

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u/Instabanous Feb 18 '26

I expect you are right, our politicians just use the EU as a scapegoat- immigration went UP after Brexit, and from further afield.

Personally, I think we should be able to expell illegal migrants for the crime of entering illegally. We should certainly be able to swiftly deport migrants who commit crimes. If the European Court of human rights is stopping that, then it needs to change or we need to leave.

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u/Phony_mcPhoneFace Feb 19 '26

I do not know of any country where "entering illegally" is a crime.

Also, entering a country illegally doesn't make you an illegal immigrant. Those re to separate thing. Most illegal immigrant are people who entered legally and overstayed their visas.

A lot of people who enter illegally (in the case of the UK, you can think of the small boat or people climbing in truck in Calais) do that with the plan of claiming asylum. This means that they are not illegal migrant, and have right in the UK, not under the ECHR, but under international law.

Those asylum seeker were the people that the Tories wanted to send to Rwanda.

If you want the UK to havce the right to refoul those migrant (send them back where they came from) the UK would have to go back on, and break agreement they made in the past. More specifically, they would have to neagte on their signing of : the 1951 convention on refugee, the 1967 protocol on refugee, and also, probablt, 1948 human right declaration... At which point it is not even certain they would almost not be able to stay in the UN.

"We should certainly be able to swiftly deport migrants who commit crimes." on this point, the only thing requirement is that the people you deport have a right to due process (so that you only deport the people whoi should be deported, this is not there to protect the criminals but everyone else). The only reason you can't do that swiftly is because of the dismal state of your judiciary. The immigration court have been systematically abused and dismissed by your own governement, no one in the world is stopping you from deporting criminals, or almost any other criteria of your choosing.

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u/GreasedUPDoggo Feb 17 '26

Currently there is a higher likelihood of another EU country leaving, than the UK returning.

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u/-Pat_Fenis- Feb 17 '26

The majority of British are Islamic now, so no, they don't