The European Union

[poliphilo]

The only people who care one way or the other about the EU are those who hate it- which explains the enormous success in last week's election of the right wing nationalist parties.  I was reading that in France only 15% of the electorate bothered to turn out.

The EU has evolved into one of those unloved, unwieldy, inefficient empires- like the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman- that exist for the benefit of the bureaucrats and bankers who run them. I don't expect it to last very much longer.

Comments

[matrixmann]

Or it's those ones who benefit from it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And no-one much else that I can see....

[redatt.livejournal.com]

It's the low turn outs that get to me. That we have to have things based on what far less than 50% of the people say, is just so frustrating.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The systems broke- and I can't see how it can be mended.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

The system is broke when UKIP can make such strides

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The political elites are hated across Europe.

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

The EU may be unloved and unwieldy, but it's still (for the moment) protecting us from unrestrained free market capitalism - see the recent ban on neo-nicotinoid pesticides which are implicated in bee deaths, a ban which the environment minister and agri-business fought hard to prevent...

But I can't see these protections lasting much longer. Once big business starts weakening the EU's environmental controls we're doomed.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Big business or the EU- ho hum- what a choice...