A Brexit supported crosses out "Never, never, never" from "Never, never, never give up" on a statue of Winston Churchill after Britain votes to leave the European Union.
“I don’t think that he would give up UK sovereignty for a small peacetime economic advantage.”
‘small peacetime economic advantage. Small…? economic advantage? No, you miss the point. While Churchill was an Atlanticist and not too much in favour of a much closer union with continental Europe, the EU is the most successful organisation that has ensured peace on the continent. The EU has basically protected the Europeans from themselves.
Even the Balkan states that were decimating each other not 25 years ago, are in the EU or angling to be in it.
Don’t get me wrong, there is much within the EU that makes me roll my eyes, but despite being an Africentric European, I seem to be more European than some Europeans I have met. The British suffered during the 2nd WW, London and other cities blitzed, nearly half a million dead but they were not invaded (crown territory Channel Islands excluded), did not have many of their cities razed, populations rounded up…
What the EU does for one might not be exactly the same as for the other, hence perhaps why the British have always been Eurosceptics, but the EU as a military conflict avoidance scheme?…bloody good. On that Churchill might have grudgingly accepted.
“I don’t think that he would give up UK sovereignty for a small peacetime economic advantage.”
‘small peacetime economic advantage. Small…? economic advantage? No, you miss the point. While Churchill was an Atlanticist and not too much in favour of a much closer union with continental Europe, the EU is the most successful organisation that has ensured peace on the continent. The EU has basically protected the Europeans from themselves.
Even the Balkan states that were decimating each other not 25 years ago, are in the EU or angling to be in it.
Don’t get me wrong, there is much within the EU that makes me roll my eyes, but despite being an Africentric European, I seem to be more European than some Europeans I have met. The British suffered during the 2nd WW, London and other cities blitzed, nearly half a million dead but they were not invaded (crown territory Channel Islands excluded), did not have many of their cities razed, populations rounded up…
What the EU does for one might not be exactly the same as for the other, hence perhaps why the British have always been Eurosceptics, but the EU as a military conflict avoidance scheme?…bloody good. On that Churchill might have grudgingly accepted.