Thanks for the link, but I deny to read the article. It's not worth to do that, as only bullshit is written there.
It's clear even without reading the bullshit, just by the headline.
Just because of the fashion-word "neo-liberal".
When you see any kind of text with "neo-liberal", you immediately know, that's all bullshit in there.
Because everyone, who uses this fashion-word is an idiot, who didn't knoe the meaning of it.

See "I’m a socialist and a Jeremy Corbyn supporter, and I voted for Brexit" which usefully summarises much of my thinking.

Read more at:

@dsl: well, a warning sign may be not too bad - but to muller yourself into the (shit)hole, as the Brits have done with their Brexit-bullshit is annother thing.

The rest of Europe -mee, too- is still perplexed about the naivety of the Brexiteers, and about their big eyes and helplessness about the upcoming problems and disasters, as the inner-Irish border, the non-existing IT-programme for the customs controls, the social insurance of the British citizens, living in the EU (My wife and me are still wondering, why the BBC still aires "A place in the sun") and even travelling with pets.

Last weekend, on a short trip to Scotland
(for https://youtu.be/7pEhm02BjG4
Not the best clip, but filmed from our position, I may be visible, too)
we felt this narrow-mindness again: because GB is and was never in the Schengen-Zone, there was a passport-control at the airports - those on the way back to Weeze (a former Royal Air Force airfield at the Dutch border) has cost us half an hour!

For non-Middle-Europeans: we here are used to travel unstopped and unmolested across the whole continent (except to obscure banana republics as the Kosovo, Republica Srpska, Switzerland and Great Britain)!
The chavvy blokes, coming from Mallorca could go directly to their luggage, but we had to stand around as idiots!


In Scotland I was surprised to spot within a few hours a Dennis Tipper (on a construction area at the Edinburgh Airport), a Triumph 2000 and even Rootes-crap, a Sunbeam Alpine (both in Linlithgow).
My thought was:
"There will be Brexiteer-morons, who will think, that the upcoming Brexit is responsible for that increasing classic Britishness".

Btw.: I thought to become a candidate for the European election next year. But I cannot join the German party congress of my party - because I plan to go to Beaulieu on that weekend.

You're wrong. There were a lot of false claims made by both Brexiteers and Remainers during the referendum campaign, but they were not the reasons I voted Brexit.

I voted Brexit because the EU has gone bad. It has become a power-grabbing structure focussed on getting more and more control over its member countries and preventing those countries being able to steer themselves. If you're an economically strong country, EU membership is probably a good thing (eg France, Germany, Scandinavia, Benelux) but if you're a weaker country (Greece, Ireland, Italy) you get forced into tighter economic constraints with no control or prospect of real improvement. Basically it's capitalist bullying by the big guys of the weaker economies. Greece's economy particularly has been suffocated into a near-coma instead of being helped.

I'd be happy to stay part of a benevolent and progressive EU which allowed its members to control their destinies according to their needs and helped each of them to flourish, but that's not the EU which is on offer.

UK still needs a good relationship with Europe - probably based on free trade - and while I'd accept that our Brexit negotiating tactics have been stupidly inept, it is also clear that EU negotiators don't want us to have a good post-Brexit relationship. All they do is tell us what we can't have - there's been nothing positive about what we could have or how the practicalities could be usefully solved for a friendly Brexit which works for both sides.

The British vote and some other countries having strong anti-EU movements should send a warning message to the EU power brokers that they've got things wrong and need to seriously adjust direction, but there's no sign that they're prepared to listen. And that for me is the underlying reason I want out - the product is not what it claims to be.

For fueling the discussion:



Yes. This is the problem.

Not just at the Brexit-vote, also at any kind of other votes and elections, this is the problem: the muggins.

It may sounds like snobbery (I'm an active supporter of it), but the voting rights should be connected with a miimum IQ-standard and a basic knowledge about politics and economy.

The Brexiteers still haven't realised, that all their thoughts and opinions are fully based on lies.

Plus their loss of reality - they didn't have thought about the big problem with the inner-Irish borderline, they ignore all, absolutely all interrelations inside the modern Europe, not only the economical ones.

Let's see, what a disaster we -mainly the British- will have soon.

I'm thinking about a visit in Britain around the 29.3.2019
The actual statement and remarks of the politicians -the British ones!!- already give us foreign visitors the foreboding of a feeling like we had back then in the DDR or actually in Northkorea:
be prepared with cash money in real currencies, food rations, beverages, a full tank of gas and a half packet of cigarettes and sunglasses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvKs2VLmVnY


P.S. The best point of this unique DDR/Northkorea-feeling was the certainty:
"I can get out here without any problem"

o.k., here the direct quotations of the link above:

I thought this would happen

Started here:
http://imcdb.org/yourcomments.php?formovie=108729