For years the EU political elite have been trying to bring about a Federal European state by many means both fair and foul. In the process they have largely managed to shift the democratic process to a side show. If they don't get the answer they want they simply keep asking the question again, whilst applying bullying political tactics, until they get the right answer. The answer they want.
But still they could never quite manage it. Those fucking British hold-outs with their opt-outs and their refunds and their refusal to see things their way, and their whinging and moaning. So non-European. So Anglo-Saxon...
Then came the Euro crisis, a crisis brought about directly by their failure to see the big picture economically and by shameless jerrymandering of the fiscal rules relating to monetery union. And now it seems that they might get what they wanted all along. A single European goverment with full control of the budgets and tax systems of the member states. This is the only way the Euro can ever work or could ever work, and they knew this all along. You cannot have monetery union without political union. They knew this, history clearly tells us this, but they pressed on regardless and in my view engineered this crisis to bring about the union they always wanted.
No you cry, you mad conspiracy theorist, they would not do that their own people? uBt ask youself who has suffered because of this crisis? It certainly was not the EU bureaucrats, commissioners or MEPS. They continued raking it in and are still raking it in. I fear the people of Europe, particularly the people of the peripheral states were seen as acceptable collateral damage in the battle for the greater good.
So the EU now needs a new epithet. The EU - Unity through Failure.
