Posted on: Apr 23 2008
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We have a new idiot! Today’s idiot (and rightfully so) is the Tory party of Great Britain.
Faced with increasing support for European legislation at home the reactionaries of the UK’s big right wing political mob has grasped onto the newest European initiative to support trade and development in the hope of increasing their support from mad old Euro-skeptics.
The EU has proposed dividing Europe up into a few regions which will get tax payers money to boost local government in the areas of tourism and cross-border employment. A spokesman for the Department of Communities and Local Government said:
It is about support for business, helping boost employment and turning around deprived areas… helping firms in Kent do business with people in Northern France or promoting joint tourism initiatives between different countries.
A noble cause you’d say? Not according to the Tories. The newspapers The Daily Mail, The Sun and the Daily Express (which are strongholds of Tory support and Euro-skeptics) each have damning articles making it look like the EU is trying to split up the UK and destroy the fair land which the mincing Brits call home. Again.
The Tory shadow community spokesperson Eric Pickles (also known as Dracula’s henchman) said:
Now the Labour Government has been caught red-handed conspiring with European bureaucrats to create a European superstate via the back door. [ ... ] Gordon Brown literally wants to wipe England off the map.
Therefore I nominate as today’s idiot the Tory party for fear mongering Euro-skeptic antics we’ve all gotten damn tired of hearing about.
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Well, the EU may have it’s good sides, but I too feel that it’s something that, at least in part, was forced upon me. This whole EU-amendments / law thing that us Dutchies voted against… all we heard from OUR government was that it was basically a good thing, etc etc, and that NOT joining it would be bad.
Since it’s — in my opinion — impossible to have only good things about something as big as some EU-wide laws and regulations, I felt like they were holding back information. That makes me curious: why? What are the downsides they don’t want to tell me about? And since they don’t want to tell me, I’m sure as hell not gonna agree with them.
I’m not afraid that “the EU is out to get me” and make me part of one huge, culturally homogenous entity. Big countries still have different cultures in different areas, so that’s not an issue. I *am* very worried about the huge bureaucratic mess (and cost) it involves, and I can’t blame the brits for feeling the same way.
As far as I’m concerned, sure, let’s open up borders to ease trade and tourism and whatnot, but I fail to see why dividing the EU or the UK into zones, or any scaremongering about it (either by the Tories or, if they happen to be right, the other side) is a requirement. If the brits don’t want the EU, fine, their choice. Most of the world’s nations are NOT in the EU, and we all survived so far.
tl;dr: fuck politicians.