tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post3733309562419865431..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Crisis time is here againThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-83623557818002665872012-08-27T14:42:24.147+01:002012-08-27T14:42:24.147+01:00I am a European; an Anglo Saxon which makes me a E...I am a European; an Anglo Saxon which makes me a European through and through. Yet I have never believed in, nor wished for, a United States of Europe (perhaps a century ago not a bad idea, but such is hindsight). I believed that it would inevitably lead to dominance by the powerful over the weak. The old view that there is no dictatorship to match common sense seems nearer the truth today. Germany has to shoulder the blame for this debacle; it will turn millions away from what is sensible and consensual by seeking to maintain what is unfair and partisan. A Europe of separate states deciding for themselves how far to go in matching and blending policy has been superseded by one where centrist technocrats without need of electorates wage an internal war against the masses who are set impossible goals.Anton Dequehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07076828639042541217noreply@blogger.com