I've just done something I should have done months ago when the referendum was set up. No ... I'm not talking about trimming my beard, cutting back on the beer and tokes, and updating my wardrobe ... I checked a list of the countries in the EU. Holy feces batperson! Not exactly a catalog of economic muscle is it? Take out Germany, France (ok, they are facing major problems, and there is a storm looming on the right), Italy (maybe), possibly Sweden (they make great automobiles), maybe Spain, if the Catalans don't go on their own, but the rest
.... And this is the Union that millions of Britons wanted to be a part of
Talk about chaining yourselves to a corpse.
The way I look at it from my rude, backwoods vantage point out here in the colonial wilds, is that the really dumb choice in the referendum was "in". The way I see it ... and please feel free to disagree; I would be interested, seriously, in other interpretations ... the EU was Germany and the UK. Put the Frogs to one side; they have major internal problems to deal with. Subtract Britain, and what's left? Germany.
There is another way of looking at the equation: EU - UK = 95%. Just had to get that number in somewhere.
