UK in/out Europe?
UK in/out Europe?
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- IRNlun60
5th largest economy in the world can't govern on it's own? Looks like both camps are caught up in the personalities who support/reject this but this decision affects Britons futures well beyond current leadership. A decision that will not be so easy to turn back from if things don't work out as promised.
- It's less about the personalities and more about the impossible task of extracting truth from propganda.Morning_star
- There is the history of at one point being the worlds most powerful nation, and a leader in trade, ethics and human rights.IRNlun6
- What do they stand to gain from a centralized bureaucracy that won't be beholden to member countries citizens?IRNlun6
- Empire. Not the most positive era in our history.Morning_star
- True, but does show your country is more than capable of ruling on its own. There is much for your country to take pride in.IRNlun6
- Yes, but I think we realised that conquering countries and then exploiting their resources was ultimately unsustainable. At some point the locals would...Morning_star
- ...get a bit stroppy and take back what was theirs and we didn't have the military might to do that in so many countries.Morning_star
- lol @ leader in human rights - empire days were as bad as it could be.fadein11
- I can understand the sense of self loathing if you're only looking at history through the prism of empire days. A trait many Americans seem to embrace as well.IRNlun6