by a UK citizen : who pretty nails and sums many things about the matter
The Eu is ablaze because lacks enormously , in spirit and in facts , the 2 places have been occupied , in waiting too long for states to reach the requested austerity measures ( it can't be 50 years though ,..) , and eventually flattened the different goods , different ideas , and inputs , to close to zero .
It simply lacked air to breath , in many segments of life not just business and work , everything feels nearly afreeze forever : it was also for the fear that this happened ( a part calling himself out ... so that eventually things now have to be rediscussed , the damage has been alive from years yet though )
Reuters wrote:
Why I voted for Brexit: it is because the EU house is ablaze
By Jerome Booth
Published: June 27, 2016 8:54 a.m. ET
The ineffectiveness of European leaders has been astounding, says Jerome Booth
I am pleased that my country has chosen to say halt to undemocratic and dysfunctional governance, even as I am aware that there are major challenges for Britain ahead. I do believe Westminster can do better than Brussels for the simple reason that our government and MPs are more likely to be kept in check by the electorate.
Democracy is often frustrating for policy-making. It is messy and very hard work. It is very easy to slip into a preference for technocratic solutions. Democracies also facilitate major policy U-turns when needed.
The EU (certainly from the British electorate’s perspective) has a massive democratic deficit — and that, above all, has been its undoing. This is not to say that it is entirely undemocratic, just nothing like enough. I am also not arguing that Westminster is some panacea — indeed its democratic vibrancy is somewhat tarnished due to the presence of the EU, the decline in mass-membership parties and affluent complacency.
I believe, however, that the interests of the British people and economy are best served by our own independent legislature, and homegrown social and economic policies. I believe an independent vibrant financial center requires its own currency, and that the British economy is better off with our own monetary, fiscal, trade and structural policies.
People abhor uncertainty, however, and often cling to false certainties. “Project Fear” has been built on highly partial economic guesswork (otherwise called modeling: the game is to make the necessary assumptions to reach the desired conclusion) and the idea that there is huge uncertainty for the UK outside the EU but none inside the EU. Yet uncertainty is not restricted to life outside the EU. Indeed, EU stability has for a while been a fiction. The EU’s failures are too large, its ability to reform too limited.
The EU was always a political project, a hugely successful one in many ways. It sometimes took years, but every major initiative since the Treaty of Rome in 1957 has been eventually initiated, in the inexorable if sometimes numbingly slow move to “ever closer union”. Yet that there have been delays but no outright reversals is in itself telling — a sign of following a long-term plan despite, not driven by, the ebb and flow of whims of the broader citizenry.
The idea of “Europe” has had a powerful hold over the peoples of our continent and leaders have grown adept at overcoming the many obstacles of creating policy consensus from so many disparate parts through enormous efforts of negotiation, persuasion and threat. The effort and its outcome are indeed impressive, but that is not a reason in itself to support the status quo.
This historical process of building the EU has been necessarily and essentially between member governments, not at the instigation of electorates. Overall policy direction, not just individual policies, has been designed by technocrats. In terms of logic and consistency (though not necessarily in implementation) this may appear superior to the products of a more democratic (chaotic) process.
And what is wrong with that? The answer is that there is no common ownership, no widespread sense of belonging that can compete with the nation state.
The trade-off between legitimacy and superior policy, moreover, if it ever existed, has now evaporated. The EU does not have the benefit of a fresh dictatorship that can make bold decisions. It does not have the ability to change in the face of overwhelmingly changed circumstances. Any management consultant will tell you that a board of 28 members is a recipe for inaction and a lack of momentum. With 28 countries whose primary loyalties are back home to their countrymen and not with the common (EU-wide) good, the most likely outcome is slow adjustment based on technocratic argument — and that is what we have.
But this lacks necessary dynamism. What is most lacking is the ability to conceive and effect radical policy change. The status quo is too comfortable, the existing grooves of thought inadequately challenged for healthy reassessment. Since the financial crisis of 2008, seriously radical reform has been desperately needed yet sorely lacking.
The ineffectiveness of European leaders has been astounding. Only the wealth of the EU has preventing macroeconomic catastrophe so far. Unsustainable polices have been persevered with, year after year. Denial reigns supreme nearly a decade after the death of “The Great Moderation”: denial about the nature of the economic problems and the best policy solutions. Above all, the dangers of a repeat of 2008 are frighteningly ignored, even if a little double-think has crept in here and there.
So I hope our European partners take this shocking British news in the right spirit. The house is ablaze and we’ve decided to shout Fire! Very rude of us, I know. Sorry.
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Just another step toward to establish a clerical police.