Re: This Cabinet Minister said to me, "Fuwck knows... Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on March 29, 2019, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: This Cabinet Minister said to me, "Fuwck knows..."
As someone who is a proud European, with my family background to be anything else would be ridiculous, one of the things I liked most about the EU was the way the worst excesses of European nationalism were challenged and mitigated. Given the way Europeans have religiously slaughtered each other for centuries and especially in the twentieth, if the EU is the price one has to pay for keeping the peace, then I'm prepared to pay that price and welcome it wholeheartedly. In a way the UK should be the ultimate European state, which in many ways it still is. It's model for Europe. Four nations, or peoples, living together for mutual benifit and without war. Ireland is another example of this. Integrating the two parts into a new Europran whole and making., over time, the cultural differences far less important. I've got no time for leftwing or rightwing nationalism. They represent dangerous and out-moded ideas, from a world that no longer exists, thank God. The Irish part of my family are all in favour of the European Union and have seen their living standards and opportunities rise since Ireland joined the EU, not least the great cultural shifts and the way the incredible power of the Catholic Church, their stranglehold has been challenged. When one considers how small the British Isles are and how the peoples who live there have integrated with each other for centuries in so many ways, with a common language, all this romantic nationalism seems a bit ridiculous to me.
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