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Organisationally it is secretive and obviously careless with the cash. It is far too easily bent to the will of large corporate interests and strong national vetoes.
Each of these things may seem mild or even innocuous taken separately, but together you really shouldn't be surprised if it seems democratically unaccountable and distant, which only breeds suspicion and, ultimately, resistance. keep to the Fen Causeway
Most of the problems with EU budgets are in the disbursement of funds by those national governments. Like the one responsible to a certain "Her Majesty".
It does not matter one whit what the EU does or how it reforms or improves if the debate in the UK is going to be based on lies, exaggerations and gross and wilful ignorance.
i think england's trauma from nearly losing WW2 prevents many english from trusting 'the continent' for anything but summer hideaways and a change of cuisine.
as time goes by, the old ones with the memories die off, but at this rate it'll take another couple of generations, especially with active sabotage from over the atlantic and murdoch moulding public opinion.
if america goes down, england may re-evaluate its loyalties... i can't see anything less shifting the incredible animosity some have there for europe, whipped up for decades by the yellow press.
as long as there are the likes of mandelson representing england, maybe many of the feelings are mutual.
what pisses most people off that i talk to about it is that england has a superiority complex and wants to have it both ways, in when convenient, and out when not. unsustainable, no matter how clever-clever brit pols play it...
whole hearted IN, or go play poodle, till the people see through the media looking glass and would show up for a yes-vote in referendum.
till then... what they offer seems mostly interference and subversion, fickle albion! 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
as long as there are the likes of mandelson representing england(????), maybe many of the feelings are mutual.
representing england(????)
Hang on Melo, surely you are referring to Britain and not just England.
Good God! Tony Blair the poodle is not even English!
fractal identity syndrome! 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
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