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I also support brexit. I would prefer for the UK to be in the EU because it would make all of us stronger and closer, as I think we should be, but I have to accept that current UK culture is just not compatible with the European project.
Good luck to my British friends, who I know see me as "foreigner". I don't see you as foreigner.
I guess that must be true of the political elite in the major (remaining) EU countries, or it wouldn't be the policy, right?
But for, say, Hungary, where I have a lot of experience, I'm pretty sure basically nobody thinks "increasing integration" should be the goal. Well maybe some tiny minority who happen to work for the EU itself.
The integration everyone cared about already happened, except for the currency integration which will never happen. (IMO good that it won't.) Now you have one side that would like to use the EU as a cudgel for rule-of-law questions but only without interrupting the flow of money; and another, more powerful side that uses the EU as a dog-whistle for nationalists as long as it doesn't interrupt the flow of money.
I can't speak for "Europe" (neither can Brussels) but I know a lot of people in Germany who also think there has been quite enough integration already, thank you. Try ordering an espresso in Berlin without speaking English.
(I neither supported nor opposed Brexit as I'm just a dirty foreigner in the EU either way, but I have sympathy for those who did so on principle.)
I'm not sure what this means.
> in the major (remaining) EU countries, or it wouldn't be the policy, right?
It is not some policy, it is an international treaty signed by every current in the EU. This would be like saying that NATO is "a policy". By the way, the remaining countries are 27. 13 of those joined since the year 2000 and one left.
> except for the currency integration which will never happen
Yes it did. What a bizarre statement.
> Try ordering an espresso in Berlin without speaking English.
I live in Berlin. You can order anything in German anywhere. This is at best a gross exaggeration, at worse an outright lie. It was exactly this type of "fact" that was used to convince a lot of British people to commit brexit.
I'm so surprised that here in HN, I keep seeing comments complaining about "banners" disclosing the fact that every interaction with the website is monitored by probably every mega corp out there.
If you don't like the banners, tell the websites not to collect your data for profit, rather than complain about knowing that they do.
Doesn't make much sense.
The threat of federalisation being imposed on the UK was just another lie.
That aside, if UK voted to support federalisation, what would be your principal fear?
The Tories seem mostly to have gone about increasing wealth disparity (dodgy contacts, corruption in parliament, tax breaks for the rich, pay freezes [ie real terms pay cuts] for the poor). What's their next move?
That's an interesting take because I've always thought, as an outsider, that the British population seems strangely accepting of authoritarian governments.
The EU's democratic deficit, and the fact that these regulations can be rolled out to most of the world's major economies without any proper debate or (likely) checks and balances, proves the dangers of political organizations that are bigger than "human sized". How do you even protest this? Any country is forced to listen to mass protests, but there's no such thing for the EU.
Surely, taking your argument as truth, Scotland is smaller than the UK and therefore stronger than the UK?
And yes, Scotland will exist for longer than the UK will, in all likelihood. They are "more durable" as I said. Them leaving would lead the UK to cease to exist in its current form.
A world is essentially impossible to achieve anyway, because super powers don't want anyone to dictate rules.
The EU is not a mini-world government. it's an attempt at unifying many small nations to achieve peace and World power status. on their own, European countries are at the mercy if the US and China.