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Brexit thoughts
Can't watch the news. Too.. off-putting.
I was going to share a couple of very silly things from Facebook, but I can't make them work, so nevermind.
Also I've been thinking.
There seems to be a sort of sentiment that a vote for Remain is an endorsement of the EU. And goodness knows it's not perfect. (Just look at Greece.)
I think a better way to look at it, is to see it as a worthwhile project. After all, it was set up after the 2nd World War, people had been killing each other. The scars run deep.
But we can try to do better. We can try to help each other.
Even if sometimes it seems to be all bureaucracy and regulations - like a Neighbourhood Watch meeting where people keep talking about their bins. And it's tempting to just walk out, build a fence around your house and let them get on with it.
However - especially given the rise of so many right wing parties over the last few years all over Europe - I think we should try to stand together, because we have a far better chance of solving our problems that way, than going it alone.
Funnily enough, Jeremy Clarkson said one of the most pro-Euro things I've come across so far (with thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
owlsie):
"I love Europe and it makes me happy that one day we will have forgotten the difficult birth and made the EU work. I long for a time when I think of myself as a European first and an Englishman second. I crave a United States of Europe with one currency, one army and one type of plug socket."
But then, he's travelled all over. Europe not a homogenous block to him, it's people he has met, from every country, all of them doing their best to get by.
And yes, I say this very much as a European living in Britain. I love this country, and I hope it won't turn its back on the big mad crazy project it has been a part of for these past 40 years, for better or worse.
I was going to share a couple of very silly things from Facebook, but I can't make them work, so nevermind.
Also I've been thinking.
There seems to be a sort of sentiment that a vote for Remain is an endorsement of the EU. And goodness knows it's not perfect. (Just look at Greece.)
I think a better way to look at it, is to see it as a worthwhile project. After all, it was set up after the 2nd World War, people had been killing each other. The scars run deep.
But we can try to do better. We can try to help each other.
Even if sometimes it seems to be all bureaucracy and regulations - like a Neighbourhood Watch meeting where people keep talking about their bins. And it's tempting to just walk out, build a fence around your house and let them get on with it.
However - especially given the rise of so many right wing parties over the last few years all over Europe - I think we should try to stand together, because we have a far better chance of solving our problems that way, than going it alone.
Funnily enough, Jeremy Clarkson said one of the most pro-Euro things I've come across so far (with thanks to
owlsie):"I love Europe and it makes me happy that one day we will have forgotten the difficult birth and made the EU work. I long for a time when I think of myself as a European first and an Englishman second. I crave a United States of Europe with one currency, one army and one type of plug socket."
But then, he's travelled all over. Europe not a homogenous block to him, it's people he has met, from every country, all of them doing their best to get by.
And yes, I say this very much as a European living in Britain. I love this country, and I hope it won't turn its back on the big mad crazy project it has been a part of for these past 40 years, for better or worse.