RE: Can the US be relied upon?
January 15, 2020 at 6:57 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2020 at 7:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If the EU were simply a club in which you paid dues, that might matter. It isn't. The UK gleans tremendous economic benefit from membership, and, as you noted, it provides direct subsidies as well. It's a situation not entirely dissimilar to our fed and states.
I suppose that it's a tough job, to tell rural communities that they need to adapt or die. It's not specific to the UK though, or caused by EU membership, or it's putative cost. I can see (and have seen, here as well)..though, why members of those communities would make the connection. Also how and why dissemination of propaganda to that effect is appealing. The fantasy being that things would change for those rural communities if only they got out from under the EU's thumb. I doubt that, though they'd lose the subsidies for sure.
I suppose that it's a tough job, to tell rural communities that they need to adapt or die. It's not specific to the UK though, or caused by EU membership, or it's putative cost. I can see (and have seen, here as well)..though, why members of those communities would make the connection. Also how and why dissemination of propaganda to that effect is appealing. The fantasy being that things would change for those rural communities if only they got out from under the EU's thumb. I doubt that, though they'd lose the subsidies for sure.
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