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Originally Posted by danielf
Nasty is probably the wrong word, but I consider the British in general relatively insular. Which perhaps is not that surprising seeing they are Island people  |
Given previous and indeed current experience is this surprising?
If we were not so insular we'd be getting
tapped for potentially 20bn Euros to bail out Greece.
Sorry but I don't think we're insular, I do however think we've every right to be distressed at how power has been devolved away from our own elected government to one that makes a mockery of democracy in Brussels. If we were not so 'insular' we'd I speculate a similar level of control over our own affairs directly to US states. As it is we're merely slightly better off, though this is being worked on.
We are
not France or Germany or the Netherlands, we are British. We have a totally different economy to the rest of Europe which is
not compatible with the same management as those states and a totally different people.
If desiring sovereignty, self-determination and individualism rather than being just another one of the United States of Europe having pointless bureaucratic piece of excremental legalese covered paper after pointless bureaucratic piece of excremental legalese covered paper flowing from Brussels to keep the overpaid, expensive, grossly inefficient, self-interested and big state obsessed bureaucrats there in jobs makes me insular then sign me up.