23.03.07
Euro party
Today is the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome that eventually led to the EU. Cue wild celebrations throughout the country.
Oh, maybe not.
But why the hell not? There’s too much anti-Euro bollocks from this country. They had a “how are you celebrating?” text thing on the news this morning and people were all being bitchy and negative whilst clearly too pleased with themselves for their level of insight.
Now I can see that the current systems in Brussels are a pain and things are unwieldy and don’t work in a very democratic manner at times but the idea that Europe is a horrible place full of foreigners is the idea I hate.
I’ve been to Europe. I’ve been to Britain too. And Europe is generally a much nicer place with more civilized people (in the main). Their communities function much more impressively than the UK’s, the services are better, the food is better, things are cheaper (generally). So why the hell are people so opposed to having Europe have more influence here? Seems they can’t make anything worse.
And why is it the same bloody minded idiots who slag Europe off and don’t want them “interfering” who also slag the UK off for being expensive, rubbish and the government don’t know what they’re doing? So what’s wrong with getting people who seem to run their own countries perfectly well having a go at running ours? Seems the powers that be can’t win.
Sigh.
Plumsie said,
March 23, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Well I like Europe and I like europeans which is why I am going to a French juggling convention in July.
I like foreign conventions.