Re: Bejesus
If the EU didn't exist, we'd be finding ways to introduce it again in Europe, so that it would be easier to do business together, to help developing areas (which would then become markets for our products), to protect our shared environment, to encourage the adoption of human rights for all across the continent, and to try to avoid the descent into extremism which has poisoned our joint history over the centuries.
Like any other human endeavour, there are problems, but the informed person can see beyond the screaming Daily Mail headlines. I feel sorry for the people who have poisoned themselves with decades of bullshit at the breakfast table. It ends up with the Ians of this world coming out with
"The French and Germans have ALWAYS been anti-British"
You could put any nationality into that sentence, and cherry pick examples to prove a point.
This is the essence of xenophobia. Followed to its ultimate conclusion you have less trade, less prosperity, greater distrust, and more war.
Is it really that hard to understand that it is not about straight cucumbers?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
