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Thursday, 10 May 2012

The future of Europe



Nigel Farage once again tells the Eurocrats some home truths they'd rather not hear.

I never thought I'd see so many grown men stuffing cheese in their ears at one time.

2 comments:

  1. I'm not sure, being an engineer and all, but I think I noticed some closed body language coming out of the people listening.

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  2. I just finished reading "A Rising Thunder" by David Weber. And Mr. Farage's short, pithy, and accurate remarks remind me very much of Felicia Hadley's similarly trenchant speech in the Solarian League's assembly in Chapter 34 of that book.

    On a more directly historical note, in addition to 1932, the present situation in Europe is looking more and more like 1847. And the Brussels crowd are looking like the heirs of Metternich, complete to the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look in their eyes.

    At this point they have two choices. End the EU farce legislatively, or watch it crash at the hands of groups like the Paris Commune.

    The problem is that a substantial number of the representatives in that room probably think that the Commune were the good guys, as opposed to Napoleon III.

    They don't realize that in some situations, there ARE no "good guys". Including themselves. And that holding on to power, for the sake of having it, generally extracts a heavy payment in the end.

    cheers

    eon

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