Dejanic wrote:The Nihilistic view wrote:It's like the EU want UKIP to win.
I think the EU just wants Britain to stop fucking about and either integrate further, or leave, this "half in half out" crap that Cameron is trying to push makes no sense and just hurts Britains reputation.
Even as a Eurofederalist, I'd rather us just have the referendum and either become a fully functioning EU member, or leave, this middle ground stinks.
Let us think why we want this middle ground? We wan't economic integration but don't want a European superstate. The original reason for the EU of cooperation and economic liberalisation without putting up barriers to the rest of the world, a mass of regulations and an EU ruled by corporatism. Is that such a difficult concept to grasp?
The UK entered under one deal and an understanding of what the EEC would be. It's turned out not to be that and we wan't to try and get it back towards what people voted for in 1975. Just because a group of people or a nation has a different concept of what European integration should be does not make it half in half out crap.
This is why it will eventually all come crashing down, because of this idea there can only be one possible vision for Europe.