CAN any of your clever readers please explain to me how it is that countries
in Europe, who have failed to produce success within business or increased their
output since becoming members of the European Union, should expect the more
industrious nations to save them from bankruptcy (Daniel Hannan, Yorkshire
Post, September 15)?
I have never grasped the theory that, when we became embroiled in the organisation, the Germans and to a lesser extent the other successful countries in the union, should be expected to save the less enterprising from their, often deserved, fate. After all, we have been living in an industry led world for very many years and the Greeks and other threatened countries have been aware of the consequences of spending what they don’t have and can’t produce, as have the hard-working Germans who, because of their success, are in line to provide a great deal of the finance to rescue those failing countries.
To my, probably naive mind, the combining of such diverse peoples was always going to produce the outcome we have today. Like many people, I begin to believe that the whole plan was ill-conceived and has been nothing but an opportunity for thousands of faceless people to make a very good living for very little effort at the expense of the rest of Europe.
Democracy, it is not.
I have never grasped the theory that, when we became embroiled in the organisation, the Germans and to a lesser extent the other successful countries in the union, should be expected to save the less enterprising from their, often deserved, fate. After all, we have been living in an industry led world for very many years and the Greeks and other threatened countries have been aware of the consequences of spending what they don’t have and can’t produce, as have the hard-working Germans who, because of their success, are in line to provide a great deal of the finance to rescue those failing countries.
To my, probably naive mind, the combining of such diverse peoples was always going to produce the outcome we have today. Like many people, I begin to believe that the whole plan was ill-conceived and has been nothing but an opportunity for thousands of faceless people to make a very good living for very little effort at the expense of the rest of Europe.
Democracy, it is not.
