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[pscocoa]

http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=10405

This was written in Jan 2015. Seems to be spot on.

[Kevin Wood]

Yep, I'd say so. Doesn't account for all of the Brexit vote. I'm sure a lot of it was xenophobia, belief in the lies of the leave campaign and just a general desire to apply spanner to works through frustration, but, the EU seems to me to be easily manipulated by big business and financial interests, yet with just a veneer of democracy to keep the plebs content. Seems it didn't work.

[Steve B]

Merkel put down the welcome mat......That tipped the scales on the vote 

[redelitev6]

  The European dream was always going to struggle , you just can't get away from the historical conflicts of the past .

[Rods2]

Very good article and a very interesting point on intense corporate lobbing leads to 'oligarchi capture'. All it needs now is for the oligarchi's relations and children to be appointed and run the EU commission and it will be like Ukraine's Rada.

I've never been under any illusions about the EU and our limited sway against the French and to a lessor extent the Germans who run the EU. The majority of the commissions staff used to be French and probably still are? Germany with its economy is now the Hegemony power, but I think it will prove to be a poisoned chalice. It is also worth noting that Germany's trade surplus against other Euro countries is the result of cheating on common targets for inflation, which France and Northern Euro countries stuck to, southern Europe exceeded, but Germany ran a deliberate deflationary policy to gain a competitive advantage. With allies like that who needs enemies.

Our trade balance shows what an awful deal we got from the EU. Traitor Heath was determined to join at any price and he gave away far too much and traitor Blair giving back a considerable part of Margaret Thatcher's hard won rebate on the basic of his ego trip to be the first president didn't help, that worked out well - not.