Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "" video.

  1. According to Google'S AI: The UK did apply to join the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1961, but France's President Charles de Gaulle vetoed the application twice. De Gaulle accused the UK of being hostile to European construction and more interested in the US. The UK eventually joined the EEC in 1973 after de Gaulle left office. And Britain under Clement Attlee considered the EEC's precursor, the European Coal and Steel Community "undemocratic," and refused to apply for membership. The Problem is that the UK was interested in the US, but even de Gaulle may not have known that the Americans wanted the UK to join the EEC, and that the CIA had funded Jean Monnet's movement. But by the time 1961 rolled around, the UK realised that the Commonwealth would not become a trade bloc in its own right, and it needed more economic growth. So, it had to turn to Europe, because the US was too busy setting up it's own economic empire to bother with Britain. Yes, a lot of American multinationals bought inward investment in electronics and car manufacture, but little else was offered. Britain needed both to keep the US happy and to find new markets, so the EEC ended up being the only way to turn. It was so important that de Gaulle noted in his memoirs that Macmillan looked like he was about to cry after yet another rebuff during a shooting party, that de Gaulle said to Macmillan "There's no need to cry, milord." Ouch! So Britain had no choice, and arguably it was not comfortable with having to look to Europe. After all, the Americans were richer, and had all of Europe's gold. Perhaps if Ireland had been an imperial power and had lost it after neatly 500 years of lording it over the planet, then you might understand how they might find it difficult. Yet, that does not explain the persistence of wishful thinking.in the present day. I just found a quote NY Nietzsche which said, "There are two types of people. Those who want to think, and those who want to believe." I think a lot of the Brexiteers were by nature belonging to the second group. They wanted to believe in a British Renaissance of some fashion, where they would be the heroes somehow. Little did they know that they were tilting at windmills. Why? Because Brexit was already DOA. 2008 was the wrecking ball, and the failure to rewrite the "software'" of the global financial system "hardware", together with climate change, would not send the UK economy to the moon, but rather see the engine of economic growth run like it needed a rebuild. Neoliberalism is endangering our very survival, and it cannot deliver on its promises to the masses. So, a new age is coming, and it's birth will be painful and slow, as the elites try to keep their gravy train running at least, why trying to convince is to blame and hate anyone but them. And The EU itself has to question it's economic model too, and how other arrangements are needed to reduce the risk of further disruption. Other than full membership, there will be probationary or associate memberships in the EU in future. That where the UK may be happy to rest. Full membership and the Euro is for the UK unlikely. But that's my analysis, but who knows? We shall see.
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