UK and the EU

There's no significance in this as all the European countries are members of the Council of Europe (except Belarus). Even Russia and Turkey are members of the Council of Europe.

I'm not really sure how you come to that conclusion. You've read into the two separate facts an inference that isn't really there . I think you may be conflating the two organisations.

The court of Human Rights only has the say over what we do because we, the UK, passed a law in 1998 called the Human Rights Act. We are able to rescind this act which would take away the overriding authority from the C of H R.

The government have said that they want to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities) but hasn't done anything about it.

The EU has control over a lot of laws that are imposed on this country but they have nothing to do with Human Rights. So the EU can't be blamed for that

That's simply the East/West divide.

 

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Well, I think that it's generally accepted that we haven't had, nor have at present, any real influence in the EU. That was proved emphatically when our dearly beloved Prime Minister went over to Brussels to "demand", pressurise, negotiate, plead for more influence, changes in EU policy as asked for by most of the UK population. The result of that was a large amount of sarcastic, dismissive, contemptuous, and negative comments from various Ministers of France, Germany and the EU itself. So our Prime Minister comes back with nothing and unashamedly tries to tell the country that he has got a good deal!!

Agreed.......to a certain point. What you seem to be overlooking is that all the interwining and alliances will not mean a jot should the overall stated agenda of the EU to become one Federal state succeed. All power would be concentrated into a Political Point that has no real connection with any of it's 28 members bar, possibly, two.
So eventually, if Federalisation should occur, there will come a time when the EU with it's higher agenda will regard the Unions etc as a threat to it's ability to control working people by passing legislation to further control their ordinary domestic lives. So, just like the UK, the small voices,[against that of the Monolithic EU, of the Unions will be just as ineffective. The EU organisation became a different "Animal" when it changed from it's original purpose of a Trading Organisation to a Political one. It now wants to convince it's members that without it they will not survive and that by becoming one vast empirical Federation it can become all powerful, which it probably can, at the cost of the individual freedom and total subservience to the Federal State.
Just as an aside, can you imagine what would happen say if that Bogey Man, Russia, was to invade, for some insane reason, Europe?? Do you think history would repeat itself and each country would initially defend itself or would they sit there waiting the EU Bureaucrats to mobilise a EU army made up of East European, Mediterranean, and West European countries who have shown very little unity in areas where they are under pressure and asked to adhere to EU agreements such as the Schengen agreement? The vaster and more complex a Political machine/organisation is the less flexible and slower it becomes and the EU is, and would be, just that.

 

Oh Dear!!! Jeremy Clarkson is in the Remain crowd

Now what do I do?