Without the “massive leaden bureaucracy” most EU states would also vastly accelerate the destruction of their environment and wildlife, as well as revert to poorer or even zero standards of food hygiene laws, human rights, health and safety, road safety standards, etc etc.
Sure, there are some pretty major problems to be overcome, and this week’s presidential election has added to them.
But the essential point is that the EU is the only body able to over-ride the petty short-termism and greed inherent in ours, and indeed pretty much every country’s national governments, and pass legislation supports a less myopic outlook.
It’s dissolution, or even our secession from it, would essentially let the current government, already a total disaster for the UK, do what it likes. More cuts. More wreckage of the environment. More relentless victimisation of the poor to benefit the rich.
On a European scale, I can’t help thinking EU dissolution would also be a massive step backward toward the belligerent international politics of the early 20th century, and away from the post-1945 spirit of cooperation and tolerance.
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