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Alexander Clarkson
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So who exactly in UK media has helped entrench the notion among UK politicians and voters that the EU is always one step away from self-destruction?
That for 30 years so many on the UK side have promoted the idea that the EU is a feeble construct that would tremble in fear when Britain would finally unfurl its true might may have something to do with this persistent British belief in a deus ex machina that would save the day
Yet now we have a parade of UK figures claiming that they always knew that the EU as Europe's hegemon had the leverage and the UK did not.
I'm old enough to remember how a lot of people in the UK reacted way back in 2015 to any suggestion that the EU had the resilience to be the hegemonic power in Europe that sets the rules and metes out consequences to those who defy them
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Alexander Clarkson
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Wouldn't be surprised if in a few years many who once supported Brexit become strident supporters of European integration as a means through which to achieve their ideological goals on a much grander scale.
The vessel for it might change but the fascination with power rarely does
The basic problem with the Liberal Leave agenda was this dubious distinction between political and economic integration.

Without shared institutions, security tools, defence structures and yes even a currency a high level of economic integration is very difficult to sustain
Political, monetary, security, border and economic integration aren't separate tracks. They are deeply intertwined. Those who stand outside several of those tracks yet remain in the Single Market are free-riding on the efforts of those who work to sustain the entire EU system.
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How can a serious newspaper frame a set of demands that are unachievable as "peace terms"? May will not get the EU to bend on any of them. Usually setting out demands that an adversary cannot achieve is a pretext for a fight.
Throughout the ERG has attempted to present demands that are considered utterly unacceptable by the EU as utterly reasonable common sense to the UK public. This is a messaging game that merely delays inevitable UK acceptance of all EU conditions.
If the UK does not revoke Art. 50, its parliament either votes for a variant of May's Agreement with the backstop and possibly quite long transition where the UK state enforces EU laws it has no control over, or it ends up in a No Deal position of total dependence on EU goodwill.
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Interesting how advocates of a "sensible farm policy" in the UK take the social evisceration of rural communities for granted.

The EU's much-maligned CAP was also driven by an assumption that food security and rural ways of life were as important as the market
All those beautiful rural landscapes that British tourists admire in Italy and Austria also survived through EU coordinated policies including the CAP.
Reaching back to the 1950s, 60s and 70s national subsidies and the EU's CAP were crucial to enabling rural land reform programmes that helped democratise and stabilise several EU27 societies

To reduce rural life entirely to the rules of the market is to fuel social instability
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