Thread: So what do we think of this EU situation then folks?
Started 1 month, 1 week ago by Hopeless Romantic
I am deeply concerned at the apparent lack of democracy in the EU. All the power seems to be concentrated on people who are not elected. The people seem to get very little say in anything and even when they are allowed ballots they tend to be ignored unless they give the desired answer.
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"...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne
"September 3, 1939: Neil Tweedie describes a dreamlike Sunday when the immaculately dressed diplomats of Europe put the finishing touches to a global catastrophe. "In the 1936 film version of the H G Wells novel The Shape of Things to Come the arrival of war is swift and terrible. Barely has it begun before enemy bombers arrive, raining certain death from ...
"The Second World War was a monstrous planet-wide catastrophe on which the British tend to look back through Union Jack-tinted spectacles. And yet, says Adrian Hamilton, there was honour among the horror, and deeds of nobililty and courage as well as atrocious cruelty." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/ was-t......
Edited on Thu Sep-03-09 03:28 PM by fedsron2us
However, it has to be said that trying to stop a single European power dominating the land mass of Europe is a policy that can be traced right back to Elizabeth I if not earlier. In that respect it was business as usual. Indeed, it seems that the desire to avoid domination by a continental neighbour (a folk memory of 1066 perhaps) actually ...
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with ties to Mandleson. Oh well, a seat in Parliament as long as he shuts his mouth, so be it. To the Party hack who loses to him, oh well, there is always another seat.
Edited on Thu Dec-03-09 05:45 PM by fedsron2us as I was not trying to create any 'argument' at all except pointing out the fact that judging a song of the 1840s in the hindsight of how it was used a century later is as singularly pointless as picking the Derby winner a decade after the race. British fascists could make just as good a job with Land Of Hope and Glory but that does not mean Elgar and A C Benson were Nazis. Indeed. if...
Quote from PM--"he has lost the art of communication but not, alas, the gift of speech" (referring to David Cameron) Seems like that quote can be used to describe him, expcept that he's lost both "gifts".
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