I'm sad (please read my text )but I love U
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:34 am
Britt & Welsh friends, thank you, for the bottom of the heart. You knew how to resist all the arguments, of the most rational in the most apocalyptic, of those who militated for the remain. You chose to ignore the risks of explosion of your glorious country, Scot and Northern Irish, two of four nations of what stays of your Empire, having massively - and shamefully voted in favour of the Union. You took the risk of dividing for a long time your society between, on one hand, young people, graduates and urban, massively " remain ", and, on the other hand, old, little awarded a diploma and rural, massively " leave ", to a for a long time gaping social inequalities. A vote of an incredible courage because he politically destroyed and is economically going to weaken your country, what Europe can only be grateful to you.
Because it shows your sense of the sacrifice from which the continent benefited repeatedly, when you saved it from Napoleon's claws, then from the German hegemonism (twice). You finally understood that the place of your island was not within the Union. Although you have a big foot outside (budget, euro, Schengen, policy of safety(security) and immigration, banking union, etc.) Your only presence is enough to block any attempt of additional integration, not only by fear of displeasing you, but because it was necessary every time to imagine an additional labyrinthine system so that you kept your " special status ". As a result: the reforms of the Union always succeeded, because of you, to make her more and more illegible in the eyes of the citizens and thus to take away them from it. In spite of all our efforts, you continued to find this ultra-statutory and interventionist Europe, while the majority of the Europeans find her very too liberal: we were not lucky enough(did not have the opportunity) to know Margaret Thatcher and we remained, globally, attached to the Welfare state, to the state interventionism, to the regulated market, any things which make you horror. So, we have of agree to make tasteless the project of the founding fathers and to practise a politics(policy) of the middle term which, in the end(final), displeases everybody: Europe managed of the exploit to invent the statutory ultraliberalism!
You attended the shocks which shook the Union since 2008 and you understood that the Union risked to die under the weight of its contradictions, its paralyses, its compromises and the mediocrity of his national leaders who feed a more and more strong skepticism towards an European project made responsible for all the national difficulties. You thus decided to kick us in behind: if the shock of the departure of one of the four big countries of the Union does not wake us, if we do not mobilize for relaunching a construction which assured the peace on the continent for 70 years, it is that really we deserve to disappear. Your Churchillian surge will stay in the history! Because you know what waits for you: after the Second World War, you sank into the economic depression to the point that the IMF(INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) had to rush to your rescue, as vulgar one Greece. Your GDP(GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT), during your membership(support) in 1973, was one of the lowest of the EEC, and that's why you joined a project which felt reluctant at you. If Churchill was for the United States of Europe, it was obviously with the United Kingdom which would be the guardianship authority and not a simple member , no more important than France!
I am impressed, as usual, by your sense of the sacrifice and the collective interest. When I think of what waits for you, so much to cut the links between you and us (200 trade agreements signed on your behalf by the Union which you go to have to renegotiate, 80000 pages of community laws which he is going to need to sort out to avoid the gaps in the law, the operations in euros which are going to leave for the old continent that to try to keep an access to the single market, in particular for your banks and your financial services, I can only greet your courage! It is years of uncertainties, storms, from tearings which expect for you. Hats off, sirs English people! Let us hope that we shall know how to show ourselves deserving of your sacrifice. At any rate, good luck for your solitary adventure.
Jean Quatremer
Because it shows your sense of the sacrifice from which the continent benefited repeatedly, when you saved it from Napoleon's claws, then from the German hegemonism (twice). You finally understood that the place of your island was not within the Union. Although you have a big foot outside (budget, euro, Schengen, policy of safety(security) and immigration, banking union, etc.) Your only presence is enough to block any attempt of additional integration, not only by fear of displeasing you, but because it was necessary every time to imagine an additional labyrinthine system so that you kept your " special status ". As a result: the reforms of the Union always succeeded, because of you, to make her more and more illegible in the eyes of the citizens and thus to take away them from it. In spite of all our efforts, you continued to find this ultra-statutory and interventionist Europe, while the majority of the Europeans find her very too liberal: we were not lucky enough(did not have the opportunity) to know Margaret Thatcher and we remained, globally, attached to the Welfare state, to the state interventionism, to the regulated market, any things which make you horror. So, we have of agree to make tasteless the project of the founding fathers and to practise a politics(policy) of the middle term which, in the end(final), displeases everybody: Europe managed of the exploit to invent the statutory ultraliberalism!
You attended the shocks which shook the Union since 2008 and you understood that the Union risked to die under the weight of its contradictions, its paralyses, its compromises and the mediocrity of his national leaders who feed a more and more strong skepticism towards an European project made responsible for all the national difficulties. You thus decided to kick us in behind: if the shock of the departure of one of the four big countries of the Union does not wake us, if we do not mobilize for relaunching a construction which assured the peace on the continent for 70 years, it is that really we deserve to disappear. Your Churchillian surge will stay in the history! Because you know what waits for you: after the Second World War, you sank into the economic depression to the point that the IMF(INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) had to rush to your rescue, as vulgar one Greece. Your GDP(GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT), during your membership(support) in 1973, was one of the lowest of the EEC, and that's why you joined a project which felt reluctant at you. If Churchill was for the United States of Europe, it was obviously with the United Kingdom which would be the guardianship authority and not a simple member , no more important than France!
I am impressed, as usual, by your sense of the sacrifice and the collective interest. When I think of what waits for you, so much to cut the links between you and us (200 trade agreements signed on your behalf by the Union which you go to have to renegotiate, 80000 pages of community laws which he is going to need to sort out to avoid the gaps in the law, the operations in euros which are going to leave for the old continent that to try to keep an access to the single market, in particular for your banks and your financial services, I can only greet your courage! It is years of uncertainties, storms, from tearings which expect for you. Hats off, sirs English people! Let us hope that we shall know how to show ourselves deserving of your sacrifice. At any rate, good luck for your solitary adventure.
Jean Quatremer
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