You are not getting off that lightly. It wants and made a single currency. It wants a single financial organisation, an army, a single customs union, a single set of laws; what do they say about something that quacks,, it's a duck.
I think speaking Greek would be appropriate.
It's not the left wing ideas I was brought up with, but times move on.
You have been telling me for years big is better. I am asking how big? To include Northern Africa? Turkey?
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There is your fundamental misunderstanding of what the EU is. It isn't an 'IT', it's lots of individual things, not a boogie man.
The EU is comprised of many countries. Each country has it's left and right, its far left and far right, it's businesses, its workers, across every sector, its environmentalist, its consumers etc. They all have their interests, they all get listened to. Because of that many things take a long time to decide and inevitably there are a lot of compromises required. That's just what usually happens when there are competing interests eg Businesses, workers, consumers, environmentalists. It's nearly always a good thing to have compromises. But sometimes they will get things wrong.
'I am asking how big? To include Northern Africa? Turkey?'
That depends on what we are talking about.
If it about tackling climate change, then I would say you can't get too big. I would say the same about adequate food shelter and medical care for every single person on the planet. So you can set minimums, which is what the EU does, which then extends around the planet because of its influence.
Beyond that, it can be small, regional even. As I said, the EU will help regions of countries it sees as lagging behind, as it has in ours.
'It wants a single financial organisation ...... a single customs union, a single set of laws'
Re the laws, only where it has been agreed by the member states for areas the EU has its competences.
Why?
The best answer was one given to former Daily Express then later Sun Brussels correspondent who told me I think in mid to late 2017 when the Withdrawal Agreement was being negotiated that one of the senior EU officials had candidly or cynically answered the very question
'There is not an issue of general distrust towards the UK. That's not the issue, but the EU is a rules based system. Why is that? It's because 28 Member States do not trust each other spontaneously, they trust each other because they work on the basis of agreed common rules with common enforcement, common supervision and under a European court that will make sure they all apply the same rules in the same manner. They trust each other because there are remedies available. If you don't have these remedies you're a third country.'
How is it you, who recently told me you were definitely not ignorant of anything when you voted to Leave, doesn't understand this?
How is it that you can claim not to be ignorant in 2016 when you make a statement in 2022 like 'the EU wants a single financial organisation and a single customs union' when this is all the different options it has been happy to accomodate? The EU is a fudge and a compromise. Look at this picture, I mean properly look at it, don't dismiss it because it doesn't fit in with your biases, assimilate it and then maybe change your mind based on evidence as is proper?
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