One of the misconceptions in the minds of the British is that this referendum is about Britain alone. In one sense it is just about what the British think of the EU. However I believe to see that in isolation from the rest of Europe is if a may say so a tragic mistake. It misses the entire concept of what the EU represents, its purpose and its political aims.
We Europeans are one people. We have shared values we believe in the same things. Nationalism divides us. Europeanism unites us as a people. What hurts one country, hurts us all. What benefits one country eventually benefits us all.
Some politicians seek to broaden divisions for their own purposes. Some believe united we are stronger against the threats the rest of the world outside Europe presents.
Those threats have never been greater since the end of WW11. America will retreat into isolation if Trump gets elected. Islamic violence is not going away and a weaken Europe will encourage them. Putin’s gangster Russia will join in the party.
Brexit will not just weaken Britain it will weaken the rest of Europe and possibly start a domino effect whereby the EU as an institution collapses. If that happens consider the impact on market economics. It could herald a return to the thirties with all he poverty and unemployment that brought.
It is a folly to believe Britain can stand alone in a globalised world and prosper. It is also an illusion that Britain can defend itself from aggression alone. NATO may be weakened if Trump is elected. At the very least he will reduce the US commitment to the defence of Europe with his slogan ‘America First.’
This is not a time to threaten the stability or solidarity of Europe. There are broader questions than just the impact of EU immigration. Remember Spain has hundreds and thousands of EU immigrants assimilated quite well in the nation. Why not Britain? Because it’s about perception, not realities
For the Brits here in the UK it is for Britain alone, the EU doesn't work, for a very strange reason many cant, wont or realise this.
We Europeans are not one people and never will be, if we were we would be wrecking the UK economy with strikes like the French are doing now, burning the roads, messing up the tourist industry, ignoring the new directives like Italy does, and so on with the others doing similar.
No way will America ever retreat into isolation, it's not America's way of doing things, Trump or no Trump.
Islamic violence will encourage them will it? How is it then that it's getting worse all the time and we are all in it together, as you say, do you think that the islamic crap have the brains to work that out, working on that assumption if Egypt, for one, was in the EU the violence it's getting wouldn't be half as bad then.
Yes, a domino affect could happen and maybe thats what many are waiting for, the first one to have the balls to get out so they can follow.
America has always been America first, you said so the other day with your post about the president who couldn't help out in the beginning of WW11...Nothing new in that one, America pokes its nose in if it thinks it can get something out of it, usually profit.
What is it with this stability thing and the EU, recent events have shown that some of the EU never shared information about an impending terrorist threat to others, if you want to bring up immigrants again Spain could if it wished lose millions in its size alone, the UK get a new cities worth every now and again?
Nothing about perception at all Micky, which proves you know absolutely nothing about what immigration has done in the UK and changed it for ever...And just remember you brought that one up again.