whisky-dave wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote
whisky-dave wrote

For whatever reason the EU has decided that trade and
immigration must be linked for whatever reason, adn I
don't belive they need to be linked. It really is that simple.

The EU is more than a simple trade agreement.

That's where the problem lies yes,

It has always been the whole point of the EU.

with perhaps a dozen or 15 countries manangable but
with 27, and plans to extend the problems will get worse.

The problem isnt actually the number of countrys, its much
more due to the vast diversity of the economys of the countrys
involved with very economically viable countrys like Britain and
Germany lumped in with the dregs of eastern europe like Romania
and the attempt to have a common currency that applys to them
all without any central govt that drives the economy of the whole.

And the even more stupid approach of having failed politicians
turned bureaucrats impose policy on the whole without any
possibility of getting rid do them when they **** up completely.

Which is why other countries haven't tried a similar thing of that scale.

They have actually. The US has a lot more than 27 states.

And Canada has even more economic diversity than you see in the EU too.

And the USSR was even more economically diverse again.

But both of the successful ones do have central democratic
govt that makes a common currency viable.