09-26-2020, 09:30 AM
Nice post F2d5thCav and I agree with your assumption that 'Europe' as a continent of countries
is actually displayed as a party of a political consensus that enjoys all the benefits that comes with
a certain line of thinking.
For the UK -where the article is from, it's another example of the 'gang' which we wished to no longer
belong to. Any currency is based on an accepted value of what a country is 'worth' in regards of
commodities needed by others, the Euro is based on nothing more than the worth of its sum members.
Alone, it holds no power.
Before the European Union existed, those who wished to join together in trade for mutual purposes were
known as 'the Common Market' and renamed later to the European Economic Community.
Even back then -even as late as the nineties, many could see that this evolvement was merely Germany
acquiring control over nations in a different manner it attempted in the 1940's.
When it became the EU, it was obvious that Germany and it's willing-wards France and the UK, were to be
the voices of that group and any laws would be perused by them before being issued to the weaker countries
that needed the confidence of being in a group.
But since the Pound Sterling holds a special position in how the world is ran and the UK refused to relinquish
a currency that was as prominent as the dollar (Bretton Woods), the UK public's enthusiasm for the EU had
waned.
That's fine, politics rarely listens to the public and in Britain's case, as long as they don't ask the right question,
those who are elected don't have to hear an answer they don't want. Except... former Prime Minister David
Cameron made that question one of the main planks for his election bid.
And his countrymen answered!
I believe the EU will eventually -like all empires, crumble and become a dwarfed entity of what it wanted to be.
Maybe its members will eventually cast-off this current need to rely on others and dare to embrace the notion
of self-responsibility.
We'll see.
is actually displayed as a party of a political consensus that enjoys all the benefits that comes with
a certain line of thinking.
For the UK -where the article is from, it's another example of the 'gang' which we wished to no longer
belong to. Any currency is based on an accepted value of what a country is 'worth' in regards of
commodities needed by others, the Euro is based on nothing more than the worth of its sum members.
Alone, it holds no power.
Before the European Union existed, those who wished to join together in trade for mutual purposes were
known as 'the Common Market' and renamed later to the European Economic Community.
Even back then -even as late as the nineties, many could see that this evolvement was merely Germany
acquiring control over nations in a different manner it attempted in the 1940's.
When it became the EU, it was obvious that Germany and it's willing-wards France and the UK, were to be
the voices of that group and any laws would be perused by them before being issued to the weaker countries
that needed the confidence of being in a group.
But since the Pound Sterling holds a special position in how the world is ran and the UK refused to relinquish
a currency that was as prominent as the dollar (Bretton Woods), the UK public's enthusiasm for the EU had
waned.
That's fine, politics rarely listens to the public and in Britain's case, as long as they don't ask the right question,
those who are elected don't have to hear an answer they don't want. Except... former Prime Minister David
Cameron made that question one of the main planks for his election bid.
And his countrymen answered!
I believe the EU will eventually -like all empires, crumble and become a dwarfed entity of what it wanted to be.
Maybe its members will eventually cast-off this current need to rely on others and dare to embrace the notion
of self-responsibility.
We'll see.
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