tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post2687404894976293704..comments2024-01-10T19:42:10.717+03:00Comments on The Road to Euro Serfdom: Why the EU is UnreformableSerfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03298915724856708344noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-83893470968480599842017-09-12T13:09:30.086+03:002017-09-12T13:09:30.086+03:00With the benefit of hindsight, a decade later, you...With the benefit of hindsight, a decade later, your comment was both right and wrong:<br /><br />"So like a Protestant living in a Catholic monastery, we are completely incompatible with the culture and rules around us, and more importantly, our chance of changing anything is zero."<br /><br />Under Juncker, zero chance of changing the EU, so you were right there. However, with Brexit,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-17788992500967906132007-01-12T01:18:00.000+02:002007-01-12T01:18:00.000+02:00I don't think this is a fair summary to be honest....I don't think this is a fair summary to be honest. I hear the argument regularly that because Jean Monnet wanted a European Federation that's all the EU is or ever can be. This is a decidedly convenient piece of logic. <br /><br />The integration process is driven by national governments - they are the only people who can draft treaties to transfer powers to the European level - so arguments Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-11317396658723379752007-01-07T21:28:00.000+02:002007-01-07T21:28:00.000+02:00More free trade is advocated. We already have as m...More free trade is advocated. We already have as much free trade as it is possible. The basic premise is that the EU its an economic bloc, as far politics is concerned it is non-descript, emasculated of any decision making power and a placid observer of world events. The EU its a foreign military base, wherever you go there are are Nato and American bases ( foreign invaders). The EU as it is no Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-74202653013962360552007-01-04T18:21:00.000+02:002007-01-04T18:21:00.000+02:00If you believe in democracy and I mean real democr...If you believe in democracy and I mean real democracy, then the reform of the EU is impossible. <br /><br />Democracy simply doesn't work well, the more people, cultures etc that are involved.<br /><br />The utopian dream of a democratic federal EU is a pipe dream, doomed to fail. The only question is how much pain we will all have to suffer.<br /><br />The longer it goes on, the more pain I BritBlokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013146648211059707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-62794976580122622192007-01-04T14:37:00.000+02:002007-01-04T14:37:00.000+02:00Chillingly, the Germans are muttering about "Ways ...Chillingly, the Germans are muttering about "Ways of making you vote yes!"<br /><br />And I heard a French Euro type the other day saying, without irony, that when the Irish voted the wrong way, they were given the chance to reconsider........The Leadership Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04212273253106023958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-16144644882920954412007-01-04T13:42:00.000+02:002007-01-04T13:42:00.000+02:00France Sucks,
You make my point for me. There is ...France Sucks,<br /><br />You make my point for me. There is much to be gained from a free trade zone, but the EU must be destroyed in order to create such a thing.Serfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03298915724856708344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-59053672788601822712007-01-04T13:35:00.000+02:002007-01-04T13:35:00.000+02:00Very good summary, Serf. Sometimes it is hard to c...Very good summary, Serf. Sometimes it is hard to cut one's way through the outlying forest of trivialities to get to the essence of the matter (like the prince in 'The Sleeping Beauty'), but you have managed it here. <br />Unfortunately, some of the reasons the EU is unreformable are also - equally - reasons why no-one in the main political parties in the UK will ever do anything about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8375499.post-31093965435175326542007-01-04T09:33:00.000+02:002007-01-04T09:33:00.000+02:00..
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God of the Universe thinks
com.....<br />absurd thought -<br />God of the Universe thinks<br />communism is SUPER<br /><br />even though it never works<br />because we are not robots<br /><br /><br /><br />absurd thought -<br />God of the Universe feels<br />communism is fair<br /><br />fools can't or won't think it through<br />idiots just keep scheming<br />..Captain USpacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00786470726332272129noreply@blogger.com