According to some UK friends…they do that already. 🙂 😀
John.
Well, I think we always need to differentiate between the actual people of a country and the government of a country.
If you were to believe the Daily Mail for instance, one would get the impression that the French were a totally homogenous Europhile race who see no further than the Euro, are happy to be ruled by Brussels and are all virulently anti-British.
My experience is somewhat different (having been there once or twice). I find many of my French friends are as anti EU as I am. They envy our resistance to the Euro and would have the Franc back tomorrow.
They also envied the fact our government (if one could call Cameron and his bunch of public school, upper class ****ers a government) did at one point hint at a referendum on the EU, as they would like one too. Many middle aged, middle income French people feel (as many here do too) that no one is listening or cares about them–even though they work, pay their taxes and generally abide by the law.
I can’t see this new bloke being any different to the last bloke, who I most often heard of being sneeringly referred to as ‘our little Napoleon’.
I suspect the real danger of collapse will be in Greece (currently looking very unstable again) or Spain, Italy or Portugal.
Bring it on I say, then after a lot of pain (for ordinary working class folk in every country), common sense may once again then get the upper hand and political experiments like the EU and the Euro might well be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Andy.
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