On May 5, 8:24=A0am, "John of Aix" <j.mur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Maria wrote:
> > On May 5, 12:16 am, "John of Aix" <j.mur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Britain has more in common with the US than most of Europe.
>
> All it has in common is the language and even there there are great
> differences. What else does it have in common with the USA? It's
> political system is entirely different, its ethnic make-up is entirely
> different, it's geography is entirely different etc. So what exactly is
> this 'more in common'?
>
> >>> If that is the case, then that is the argument that should be put
> >>> to the people. We should have a referendum and our surrender to
> >>> Europe.
>
> >> Only you and your loony friends consider it surrender, normal people
> >> consider it political and social progress.
>
> > How is it political or social progress to devolve power further and
> > further away from the individual?
>
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> If there is any difference now between individual power and the
> individual power of 50 years ago it is that the individual has more,
> such as rights written down on paper and the possibility of appeal
> against their own govenrment's decisions for example
True it is useful for playing one power center off against another,
for where there is a state there is little individual freedom. As the
eu sets itself up as a state however, there is no chance that it
represents anything but a self interested body that is only looking to
undermine the power of smaller nation states for its own ends.
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