Spontaneous Musings

I don't personally blame Germany for the current state of the EU - they are in a very difficult position and are carrying a lot of very heavy cultural baggage. I blame the Eurocrats and others who put their own ideology ahead of real people. I think the whole EU is based on fundamentally unsustainable principles. The people who believe in it want a single federal state, but that is culturally incompatible with what the majority of the European people want. The tension was always going to be worst for Britain because we come from a very different economic, historical and legal framework to most of the other countries. We went into what we were told was a purely economic club just at the time when the economic advantages were starting to diminish and the drive for political unification was beginning. Then we were carried along for years by a sort of conspiracy of the elite who refused to countenance any change because they personally were benefiting from it. Meanwhile the eurofanatics were willing to inflict terrible economic suffering and appalling corruptions of democracy to achieve their own ends. Something had to give eventually. It was not inevitable that Brexit happen, but a big change was long overdue.