Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Michel Barnier Is Negotiating Brexit For The 500 Million EU Citizens That Remain (HBO)" video.

Thats the thing many euroseptics don't seem to understand, the shape the EU takes is really dependent on it's members and it's people, the EU can't really do things unless it gets enough support from enough members, many euroseptics make it seems like it's a power on it's own that can do anything it wants lol, it's anything but that, it needs support by enough members to get things done whiles also needing support in the European Parliement. As for a united Europe, I think it's a great idea considering the history Europe have had for so long, we've had one of our most peaceful times over the last 60 or so years then we have over the last 2000 which says a lot and fair enough that the US and NATO played a part, to me, the EU really played the biggest part when it started out as the Steel and Coal Community, the idea was to tie the members resources together to make it very hard for them to go to war with each other and it worked, the idea of war with any EU member would be unthinkable today.
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The thing is about Trump is that he is showing why the UK really should stay in the EU and with how the world is changing, the UK and rest of the EU members really need to stick together if they are to protect there intrest, the reality is, the UK just isn't big enough to compete with the likes of the EU, US and China and will always play second fiddle to them, so we are not really taking back control, it's just being redirected and dictated to by other powers without the UK having any say over it.
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The EU changese and reforms all the time, Hows that, put your arguement to rest lol, in any case, I suspect we are going to see big changese and reforms of the EU and the irony being is that the big changese are likely to happen thanks to the UK not being in the EU.
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Total assimilation is something that happens naturally as the world gets closer together and tech advances more, thats always been the case and likely will be for the future, now the EU just like any unions does help that along but it was going to happen one way or another by globalisation, the reality is, the more we advanced, the smaller the world seems to us and the more interaction we all have with each other around the globe, thats assimilation over the long run and there is little to nothing we can do about that unless we isolate ourselfs so much that we end up like North Korea.
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The thing is with the vote being so close, if done many times over, they could swing either way which makes you wonder how crazy that the UK is going ahead with Brexit on such a small marging which the vote was based on lies from all side and it really does show how bad things have got in the UK.
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Well as we know, talk is cheap, we keep hearing a lot of whats they will do but not what they going to do and so far the UK keeps backtracking on a lot of what it's saying because reality is kicking in, the same is slowly starting to kick in with Italy now that they are rolling back on some of the things they said before the elections, it's easy to say they will do this or that, it's another thing putting it into action want the markets have there say and thats what we are seeing in the UK. The truth is, the UK messed up big time with Brexit and we are paying the price for it now, everything keeps pushing us towards a deal like single market and custom union or something like that because we can't find any alternatives that protect the UK and thats what it all boils down to now, limiting the damage done.
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The EU isn't a country yet but it could become one someday, as you point out, many of the fundermentals are already in place to do that but we should remember that it wont happen unless most of the EU members want that, in any case, the EU only works by repensenting the intrest of the overall EU, it's how it was designed in the first place afterall, no country would give up so much power to the EU otherwise. Some mistakes have been done over the last 20 years, to me Greece and Italy should not of been allowed in the Euro because they are clearly not ready for that, the eastern EU members that joined should of had it's freedom of movment closed until the economics of each eastern members gets to around 70% gdp per capita of the west EU members, then that would of been far less of an issue. Most of the other problems the EU members face are mostly down to national goverments then the EU but it's just easier to blame the EU for everything as we've seen the UK do that for decades, also the US which isn't a EU member are facing a lot of the same problems we in the EU face so it's clear the problem isn't the EU but something much bigger, my guess inequality devide, too many people are getting left behind whiles the rich elites get richer and big corparations get away with paying little taxes, I think thats part of the bigger problem, the irony that the EU is one of the few trying to solve that problem.
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True, and to me, the rich poor devide really starting to get worse from the early 1980's to now and likely will get worse if we don't get our act together. Blaming the EU is easy to do but that doesn't solve the problem, a lot of the times the members blame the EU on things the EU doesn't have the power to change because it's in national hands, thats whats crazy about it, in any case, with Brexit, the UK wont be able to blame the EU, all the problems in the UK will be done to the UK and then they might wake up and realise that the EU wasn't the problem to begin with. In any case, if we really want change, it really needs to be done at a national level, the EU can help on that but it's got limited powers in a lot of areas that are the domain of members, the US which clearly isn't a EU member have a lot of the same kind of problems we are facing in Europe hence why Trump got elected, so things need to change clearly but leaving the EU would likely make things worse for the UK.
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