How utterly ridiculous is the position in which the UK finds itself. In Europe, but not in the Euro-zone. An island, but with leaking borders and inadequate control. A signatory to European treaties and thus committed to compliance with all sorts of rules and agendas, yet somehow trying to claim sovereignty and resistance to a United States of Europe. A permanent member of the Security Council, but nowhere to be found when France and Germany decide on European economic policy and tactics. The home of the most important language in the world, but useless as a voice in a world that sees the UK as having a dwindling influence. A country keen on taxing the hell out of its inhabitants, while giving away many millions in pointless ventures and schemes - only to be saddled with further bills in the billions because Labour fucked the UK to within an inch of its metaphoric life.
The UK is poised to be picked on forever. There will be a never-ending swarm of people desperate to enter the country, both as legal migrants, as asylum seekers and as illegal migrants. The 'open border' for an ever-expanding Europe means hundreds of thousands will arrive in the UK expecting something. They will keep coming, and will stretch the UK's resources until they break. We will struggle to provide housing, health care, schooling, translation facilities, employment, law and order, food and welfare. There will be insufficient prison space and ghettos across the country. Resentments will be left to build/fester, and for a significant proportion of the country's population, politics having any meaning will be a rarity. The indigenous population will resent the ongoing decline in just about everything measurable. Breaking the cycle will prove impossible, as the obligations of European membership will serve to prevent any steps towards self preservation.
On the continent, European "partners" will manage to make progress slowly but surely, with Germany and France monopolising the rule-making. Finances will be steered so that the Euro-zone will become quite simply a Federal entity. Under what will end up being a United States of Europe, the variations will be beaten out of the system, just as a club can break bone. Europe will be forced to submit to a fate where most components adopt anonymity; for the greater good, and necessary success of the system, all countries will submit and forego claims for individual freedoms and variations. So, "partners" will indeed be the right phrase, as the interdependency will be total.
By not being in the Euro, what lies ahead for the UK. Escape from Federalism? Yes, but a change is required. Just as the sensible Scandinavian's have set up their own positions in the world, the UK needs a similar approach. For the UK, survival will necessarily require a departure from Europe. We would be better off to sit just to one side, almost as part of Scandinavia! The current level of entanglement is a disaster. Economically, it's a farce. Constitutionally, it's impossibly stupid. Politically, it is doomed. The answer is simple.
It is time that the UK exited Europe.
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