RE: UK to leave EU
February 9, 2017 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2017 at 10:09 am by ukatheist.)
(February 9, 2017 at 9:49 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(February 9, 2017 at 9:42 am)ukatheist Wrote: This was probably the deciding factor for me. My view is that there is little appetite for change within the EU, other than the ever increasing expansion of members.
Which was one of the impositions on the EU by successive UK governments from Thatcher until Blair, because they were obeying the then US line that the best thing to do was to quickly usher in former Soviet satellites into the EU, regardless of how ready they were for accession (with disasterous consequences in many cases).
The continental view was always that expansion should be more gradual and partial in many cases.
Ironic isn't it that one of the main cases made by the Brexshitters was as a result of their sainted Maggie's insistence of a rapid acccession of Eastern Europe. It's almost as if they didn't understand the UK's position in the international jigsaw.
Yeah, only that I am not, nor have ever been, nor am ever likely to be, a tory supporter. Sorry if that inconveniences that little narrative you have going on there.
And btw that 'imposition' - that was ratified by the UK people was it? Because it's not like the continual transfer of powers to the EU by successive UK politicians, without a referendum, was another main reason for leavers either, was it?
And by basically saying that the EU was forced to go against its collective wishes for the sake of one member is hardly making a case for the democracy of the EU.