tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post1193234782710060942..comments2023-09-28T12:28:57.598+03:00Comments on Grahnlaw: For a nationalist Britain without alliesRalf Grahn http://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-16537051774441642132009-10-30T08:54:30.627+02:002009-10-30T08:54:30.627+02:00Name-calling is no argument.
The problem for the ...Name-calling is no argument.<br /><br />The problem for the intelligent opponents of eu totalitarian corruption is that they are unable to use the democratic process as elections are now being rigged on a regular basis.<br /><br />Thus is not myopia created, but warfare. Humans value freedom. It is being destroyed. Hague is right to embark on a course of benign nationalism to resist corrupt and destructive internationalism.Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-49599522801267996282009-09-15T11:42:02.769+03:002009-09-15T11:42:02.769+03:00Tapestry,
Europe has seldom been free from myopi...Tapestry, <br /><br />Europe has seldom been free from myopic and nationalist politicians, but perhaps you should read Les Thibault (see latest blog post).Ralf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-21826579542100228892009-09-13T12:17:50.824+03:002009-09-13T12:17:50.824+03:00Citizens, you have forgotten that Scots, above al...Citizens, you have forgotten that Scots, above all, like money. If they leave the UK they will lose a net subsidy of $40 billion a year. The EU will naturally enough be more than happy to replace that ? Who will pay it? The Germans ? I doubt.<br /><br />Hague sees the EU's potential as a force for good in international affairs. But first it needs to abandon federalism. The EU's impotence was not created in London. <br /><br />Maybe London can find the key to unlock EU dynamism, by heading out into the world to make friends, and not be limited to Europe, which throttles not only Britain but Germany and France and many others too.<br /><br />Europe is shrinking in importance, estimated to be only 10% of the world's economy by 2050, where it was 25% 40 years ago and is currently 18%. It's time to cut your cloth, and get real.<br /><br />Your EUtopia dreams are over. If you don't like Hague's words, get ready for your second rejection in Ireland.Tapestryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267094484651413428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-82892118485679453252009-08-24T16:05:57.634+03:002009-08-24T16:05:57.634+03:00James,
Worrying is the word, but perhaps differe...James, <br /><br />Worrying is the word, but perhaps differently from you I fear a Conservative UK vying to be a blocking minority of one, wherever it can, on the wrong side of history and habitually wanting to nurture a special relationship with the USA to the exclusion of the rest of US allies (contrary to the wishes of most US administrations).<br /><br />Even a child can see that the European Union needs an effective common foreign policy, but the future foreign secretary lives in the realm of William Pitt. <br /><br />From the Briand plan onwards shortsighted European leaders have failed to rise above their petty views. The coming Tory government will prolong this state of European impotence.Ralf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-16867601899101982022009-08-23T19:25:31.166+03:002009-08-23T19:25:31.166+03:00This speech is very worrying. But I don't thin...This speech is very worrying. But I don't think the neo-Tories will attempt to position Britain as an autonomous actor. Rather, I fear they will turn England (note, not the United Kingdom, which I think many right-wingers hope will break up) into the fifty-first state. Fox, Osborne, Cameron and, to some extent, even Hague—let alone the notorious Hannan (with whom I suspect Cameron <i>et al</i> share more in common than they let known)—are all out and out Americanophiles. Notice, for example, how David Cameron recently <a href="http://americaintheworld.typepad.com/aboutaitw/2008/08/david-cameron-t.html" rel="nofollow">opened</a> the <a href="http://americaintheworld.typepad.com/" rel="nofollow"><i>America and the World</i></a> ginger group of neo-Tories. These people love the United States more than they love their own country...James Rogershttp://europeangeostrategy.ideasoneurope.eunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-63378389555180792532009-07-24T12:10:52.295+03:002009-07-24T12:10:52.295+03:00The advantages and disadvantages of independence w...The advantages and disadvantages of independence with regard to Westminster, budgetary concerns, various policy areas they would have to or be able to take care of on their own. <br /><br />Their relations with Europe would be but one of their concerns.Ralf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-51224105678669658592009-07-24T09:21:09.269+03:002009-07-24T09:21:09.269+03:00And the internal issues are...?And the internal issues are...?citizen of Europehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351547139010003857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-88996276620508237162009-07-23T19:37:34.543+03:002009-07-23T19:37:34.543+03:00Scotland (and Wales) would have more influence as ...Scotland (and Wales) would have more influence as EU members in their own right, but I guess that internal issues will be more important if and when they contemplate independence from England.Ralf Grahn https://www.blogger.com/profile/02156293782163802007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6406430766424642773.post-16787895348616061442009-07-23T19:03:30.462+03:002009-07-23T19:03:30.462+03:00If Scotland proclaim its independence on the Unite...If Scotland proclaim its independence on the United Kingdom in a referendum next year, hope it will be - unlike Britain - pro-European, maybe even federalist.citizen of Europehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351547139010003857noreply@blogger.com