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Euro musings, round 2
May. 26th, 2014 08:27 pmNigel Farage, for all his faults (of which there are, oh, so very many...) was right about at least one thing. A couple of years ago, he said that when politicians don't listen to the people, extremism rises.
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This can go one of two ways now. The EU elite can finally admit that these results are the death knell of 'an ever closer union', and start to listen. If they do, this election may turn out to have been a very good thing, the start of proper reform of the EU so that it works for everybody. Alternatively, they can dismiss the results as domestic politics and fringe extremism, and plough on regardless. In which case, things will only get worse.
Let's hope they listen.
(I originally posted this to Facebook, where the UKIP-related hysteria has got a little, well, hysterical.)
( May contain ramblings )
This can go one of two ways now. The EU elite can finally admit that these results are the death knell of 'an ever closer union', and start to listen. If they do, this election may turn out to have been a very good thing, the start of proper reform of the EU so that it works for everybody. Alternatively, they can dismiss the results as domestic politics and fringe extremism, and plough on regardless. In which case, things will only get worse.
Let's hope they listen.
(I originally posted this to Facebook, where the UKIP-related hysteria has got a little, well, hysterical.)
