Re: The continuing battle against the inevitable Euro area default
Kralizec - Maybe, you know, the British system is better.
I mean, Ireland excluded, we've been more politically stable and democratic than most place in Europe for the last four centuries. We shouldn't need to elect UKIP in order to be consulted on a transfer of Power from Westminster to anywhere else.
We elect our politicians to govern not to outsource their responsibilities - if they wish to do so without a popular mandate (and there is no part which has campaigned on anything other than maintaining Status Quo in Europe) then they need to ask.
As to our economy being in "ruins" if we leave - your beloved Europe is driving the entire bloody continent into bloody ruin without any regard to the human cost of "the Project". The Euro was never necessary, nor was the Constitution, nor the Lisbon Treaty, the current deadlock results from the democratic deficit - politicians in Europe have created a situation without any popular backing, and now they cannot move forwards or backwards without ensuring their own political Oblivion.
When the Constitution fell at two votes the move towards further integration should have been abandoned and serious consideration should have been given to alternatives, such as closer Union for those countries that wanted it or could manage it, and a looser relationship for the rest.
The bloody experiment in imposing political change top to bottom has failed - anti-foreign sentiment has been rising in various countries for the last decade and is now reaching a head. Greece is actually ungovernable now, the Executive can't do anything, Spain is facing a very serious prospect of fragmentation, Belgium continues to stagger on without a proper mandate at the Federal Level, France has elected a man who thinks the rich will pay 75% tax.
Don't get me started on what's happening in Germany.
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