Viviane Reding says imitate US and form FEDERAL EUROPE

Almost right...By all means imitate an America

Only it should be the Confederate States of America and we should immediately seccede from the (European) Union.

If they won't let us go we should fire on Fort Brussels!

Up the Confederacy!

"Scotland would probably jump at the chance to join"

Huh? What would be so great about having Brussels determine fiscal policy in Scotland? Only the most anglophobic of Salmondites would claim that they'd prefer that arrangement!

A managed economy aka USSR!

The biggest difference between a federal Europe and the US is that the US was a reletivley new Country able to come together under one flag with roughly similar values and the same language.

Now a federal Euroupe would be much closer to what the former USSR was, older countries with a long history, different values, different languages. The USSR was controlled by fear from Russia, who didn't have a clue how to manage their own economies, with some countries being forced down a single economic route with no diversity, so when it split up most countries where in the shit.

It would become a two tier federation with the rich north, exporting the cheap low value jobs to the southern countries (A bit like Germany post reunification).

The Italians/Greeks/Spaniards will never have the same work ethic/values as the Germans, so they will never be able to compete internally.

I don't understand

I don't understand why the right thing to do in Europe is to create a single union, when apparantly the right thing to do in Britain is to break up the union.

Which of us is doing it wrong?

Unification eh?

The Browncoats won't like it.

Not one gorram bit.

If we hit 199 and over, do we get a reset where Matt turns into a real American and Aaron turns into a real Scot?

I won't pretend to have a qualified opinion about whether or not a federal European Union

would be good for Europe, or Britain more specifically. That not withstanding, it is quite clear that Viviane Reding is as much of a twit as the character in the Dr Who episode (Tom Baker) who went around meming "The Nimon speaks of many things." His remarks on the foundational years of the USA are so rife with errors it is impossible to catalog them in space appropriate to a comment. So I will only note that since 1790, the extant banking system has been destroyed and rebuilt in the image deemed appropriate by the pols at the top no fewer than 3 times: under Andrew Jackson (who simply hated the National bank), under Franklin Delano Roosevelt (during the bank failure of the Great Depression), and under Richard Nixon (when he took us off the Gold standard).

So whatever the specific merits or demerits of a European Federation might be, the events of 1790 have no bearing on them whatsoever.