On 7/6/2016 1:42 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote:
On 6/7/16, Jaume Lahuerta, discombobulated, unleashed:
How close do you want to get?
As closest as needed in order to be able to make decisions when there is
a problem knocking at the door: refugees, terrorism, wars in neighbor
countries, financial crisis...instead of the current: 'we have to meet
and decide', which normally means 'meet and postpone the decision'.
What about the U.S.E.?
I am a supporter of the EU, but I do not want my country to become a
state in the USE. I can't see how it would be possible. There are too
many diverse societies with too many different backgrounds, cultures,
languages and ambitions to make it work. It would be doomed to failure
IMO. But a European Union as it stands at the moment is a working entity
that has good benefit for member countries.
At the recent referendum I voted to remain in. If we do in fact Brexit,
and any future UK govt wanted to apply to rejoin, I think that if the
conditions were fully open borders and full financial union, then I
would vote to remain out.
Like you, I love my country and I don't want to see it watered down by a
conglomerate entity composed of politicians from across the union, some
with their own agendas that bear no parallel with the UK's interests.
I also love Europe and lots of countries within it - Spain and France to
name but two - and I don't want to see them watered down either.
Maybe I'm just getting a bit more cynical in my old age ;-)
Peace, friends.
I was listening to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR this morning while running
errands.
She had Julian Fellowes (Downton Abbey creator) and asked him about
BREXIT. He had the first cogent argument I've heard for why BREXIT was a
good idea for the UK.
Don't know if I agreed with him, but at least I could understand his
reasoning.
... keeping in mind that I'm not directly affected by the decision, so I
don't feel any need to tell them what to do.
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