Friday, 16 December 2011

Leaving The EU

There is now a real prospect that the UK might leave the EU and if the government has the guts for it, I should raise an unusual cheer for abandoning that total shambles of an 'organization'.
Posted by NJS at 11:50

9 comments:

  1. Charles Bazalgette16 December 2011 at 17:23

    I couldn't agree more, Nicholas. I was strongly opposed to the UK entering the EU from the beginning. What was wrong with EFTA? Being in the EU all this time has been a very costly mistake.

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  2. Anonymous16 December 2011 at 18:03

    Charles - Yes. The real down-side is that the UK lost most of the Commonwealth trading links - NZ lamb etc. That would take some diplomacy to regain but it's worth a shot; especially as India is a BRICS nation. Get back onboard with countries that are building instead of heading towards bankruptcy.
    NJS

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  3. v. Braun.16 December 2011 at 20:23

    Although I'd wish that the € would work out in the future, too, I'm less than impressed by the (continental) politicians' apparent lack of insight: they obviously plan to -peu à peu- turn the EU into some sort of the United States of Europe following the example of the USA, but thereby show an incredible ignorance of the differences in culture and centuries-old histories of those countries.

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  4. Anonymous17 December 2011 at 07:36

    v Braun - and centuries' old antipathies too. Just try to list all the wars that there have been and this has got nothing to do with individual interaction and friendship. The upper classes of these countries often have more in common with each other than they do with the lower classes of their own countries. I mean: e.g. the Red Baron patronized Norton & Sons!
    NJS

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  5. La Sombra Sofisticada17 December 2011 at 10:07

    Yes, first they turn Europe into the United States and then they turn the United States, Canada and Mexico into a union. And if everything goes according to plan, we soon have a united world under the control of a world goverment. We are rapidly approaching the moment of truth, gentlemen.

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  6. Anonymous17 December 2011 at 11:38

    There is an alliance between South and Central American and Caribbean states, to the exclusion of the USA and Canada. I guess that it is in human nature to make alliances. However, I firmly believe that the UK should not have entered the EEC/EU. It should have relied on strengthening its Commonwealth trade and trade with other free nations.
    NJS

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  7. Charles Bazalgette17 December 2011 at 19:16

    Ah, yes, I remember NZ lamb, Argentine beef etc. At least we can get the NZ lamb in Canada.

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  8. Chikashi Miyamoto18 December 2011 at 11:27

    I agree that the UK never should have joined the EU. The UK should have left when they opted out of the monetary union. Now they are well and truly half pregnant: half pregnant with Europe and half pregnant being the 51st State of that place across the other body of water. I can't imagine that it is easy being everyone's bitch...

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  9. Anonymous18 December 2011 at 13:34

    Chikashi - The UK should cut the cords and return to a reasonable measure of free trade.
    NJS

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