Brexit is really a political issue. There is no logical reason for it, from an economic or business or commercial point of view. So for that reason the negotiators ( particularly the British negotiators) will have to judge the political impact of another delay. Like a plane lumbering down the runway, with a broken engine, there is a point of no return. You have to take off and deal with the problems in the air. I get the feeling that Brexit is too far down the political runway and they will have to go for it this time. The calculation might be that they have to get on with it, and then deal with the consequences as they occur.
Brexit is really a political issue. There is no logical reason for it, from an economic or business or commercial point of view. So for that reason the negotiators ( particularly the British negotiators) will have to judge the political impact of another delay. Like a plane lumbering down the runway, with a broken engine, there is a point of no return. You have to take off and deal with the problems in the air. I get the feeling that Brexit is too far down the political runway and they will have to go for it this time. The calculation might be that they have to get on with it, and then deal with the consequences as they occur.
But you could say that about any continent, what about the middle east or south east Asia, or Latin america, are they also not a "myriad of small 'nationalisms'", are they also not a bit backward for wanting their own small nationalism above for example an "Arab Union" in the middle east or a "Latin union" in South America etc. THe EU is the exception in the political world it is actually not the norm.Hi Opus, I did mean the idea of the EU (in parts the UK social and political fields) is toxic, not the idea and growing reality of the EU - which at its heart is a reimagined notion of identity countering the myriad of small 'nationalisms' the Continent is home to, and a ground source of conflict in the past.
‘We cannot aim at anything less than the Union of Europe as a whole, and we look forward with confidence to the day when that Union will be achieved."
but history has moved on Europe no longer contains the big military powers it once did, in fact it depends on the US for its protection now. There are other far more dangerous and volatile countries in Asia that are nuclear armed. For example in terms of global peace a union between Pakistan and India would be far more beneficial in 2020 than a European one.This is precisely what I am saying. The EU is a child of two catastrophic wars. The essential idea initially was to make war impossible
But thats the past, not the future. Its 1950s thinking and euro centric in that Europe is still the centre and that future cataclysmic conflicts will come from Europe and that the EU is the protection against that. That narrative is now 70 years out of date because the most likely cataclysmic conflict will come from Asia and only last year Pakistan and India almost went to war again. Britain and France are the least likely of all nations to ever go to war sure they were allies in the last 2 world wars, you would have to go back to Napoleon to find them on opposite sides.The very idea and later the fact of European unity on foot of two terrible wars fueled by nationalisms demonstrates a counter-narrative to the likes of Trump, Putin and the wider world.
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