European superstate?
Mar. 5th, 2016 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chickenfeet As I understand it from afar one of the key beliefs of the Brexit crowd is that "UK sovereignty" has been impossibly compromised by being enmeshed in a "European superstate". Leaving aside the problematic nature in theory and practice of sovereignty (No man is an island unto himself and nor is a bunch of islands with bits of another one attached...) consider how the "European superstate" is comporting itself in relation to the UK's possible exit.
Has anybody been arrested for treason or sedition?
Is the EU secret police infiltrating "no" organisations and keeping tabs on their members?
Has the leader of the "European superstate" denounced the separatists, declared their activities illegal and appealed to the European Court to stop them?
Has Brussels even demanded the right to make the referendum question stupid, biased and incomprehensible?
Has Brussels demanded the right to supervise the referendum?
Has Brussels demanded that in the event of Brexit it retain certain powers wrt the UK?
Has anyone threatened to use force to prevent the UK seceding?
Of course the answer to all these questions is a resounding "no". Brussels is not behaving as Washington, Westminster, Paris and Madrid, among others, have over and over again when the national aspirations of subordinate people within their states have conflicted with the wishes of the dominant elite.
In short the EU, on a question of sovereignty of the most emotive kind is not acting like a state at all.
Has anybody been arrested for treason or sedition?
Is the EU secret police infiltrating "no" organisations and keeping tabs on their members?
Has the leader of the "European superstate" denounced the separatists, declared their activities illegal and appealed to the European Court to stop them?
Has Brussels even demanded the right to make the referendum question stupid, biased and incomprehensible?
Has Brussels demanded the right to supervise the referendum?
Has Brussels demanded that in the event of Brexit it retain certain powers wrt the UK?
Has anyone threatened to use force to prevent the UK seceding?
Of course the answer to all these questions is a resounding "no". Brussels is not behaving as Washington, Westminster, Paris and Madrid, among others, have over and over again when the national aspirations of subordinate people within their states have conflicted with the wishes of the dominant elite.
In short the EU, on a question of sovereignty of the most emotive kind is not acting like a state at all.
