Struggling to read @FTLifeArts piece by #LouisdeBernieres for its absurdity; the worst being “It was easier for continental Europeans to compromise on democracy because they do not have the advantage of being protected..as we are..by..being an island.
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@FTLifeArts Christ, he goes on about Germany’s role in WW1 & WW2 & concludes: “in view of what has happened twice in one century, is it unnatural that some people are wary of this?”. Perhaps if you’d worked with Germans in Brussels, as I have, you’d realise how absurd and offensive that is.
@FTLifeArts Next he opines that Schengen ‘may come to an end’ & EU free movement ‘may be lost’ because of Islamic terrorism & a ‘threat to security’: I have never, in all my years working with EU officials, heard one even brainstorm this idea. What is Mr de Bernières’s on about?
@FTLifeArts Then he claims that anywhere with ‘different economies’ makes it ‘impossible’ to ‘fix an interest rate or a general economic policy that fits them all’: perhaps, but on that basis - given the UK’s incompatible economies - we’d need different “UK” interest rates, too.
@FTLifeArts Ok I need to take a break before I finish this piece. It’s not good for my blood pressure.
