Very cheap and very excellent. To use original Pilsner or Budvar-Budweiser to get stoned out of one's head is a waste of good work. Mind you, I don't doubt they would similarly insult the best of Medoc. And to go to one of the loveliest countries in the world only to make idiots of oneself is a waste of life. What on Earth will these people say when they are old - well, I got really drunk in my time?
I said that the current European management is vile. As I said elsewhere, I feel a bit like the great Carlo Cattaneo (except for the greatness, of course), a heroic patriot who, having fought all his life for Italy's freedom, spent the last years of his life in exile because he couldn't stomach the way that united Italy had been made. The reckless extension of the law-making power, under the thin and absurd pretence of regulating the market, the obvious democratic deficit, and the poisonous mixture of brutal PC and equally brutal Thatcherism (in which the Prodi presidency was particularly guilty) are all an affront to my conscience. But I still think that a united Europe is a necessity, and the history of Italy shows that all the wrong things can be reformed, one by one or all together. British hostility to Europe began long before the idiots in Brussels went out of control; indeed, its unreasoning and frequently mendacious quality was a positive asset to the empire-builders - they could always demonize any opposition by comparing it to England's. That is one reason why Britain has been kept in Europe. It is a fact that, in their campaign to set up the Euro, Andreotti and Vattane' deliberately used Margaret Thatcher as a scarecrow to get the other European government to line up behind their proposals.
The EU is the most recent name for an entity established with the Treaty of Rome of 1956, called first the European Common Market, then the European Economic Community, then the European Union. There seems to be a historical law whereby each British government since 1950 must contribute at least one disastrous decision to the long story of national decline; that of the Macmillan government was to seek admission to the then Common Market, without informing either the Commonwealth governments or British public opinion. The first thing anyone knew of it was when it became public that De Gaulle had vetoed the British entry. This was the real end of the British Empire: all the white Dominions, which until then had taken pride in their connection with the UK, felt rejected and angry, and Macmillan achieved the perfect score of losing all the friends Britain had without gaining anything in Europe. From then on, Britain has been increasingly subservient to the USA, and it is my view that this is only explained by its neurotic attitude to Europe.
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Date: 2011-11-09 10:04 am (UTC)I said that the current European management is vile. As I said elsewhere, I feel a bit like the great Carlo Cattaneo (except for the greatness, of course), a heroic patriot who, having fought all his life for Italy's freedom, spent the last years of his life in exile because he couldn't stomach the way that united Italy had been made. The reckless extension of the law-making power, under the thin and absurd pretence of regulating the market, the obvious democratic deficit, and the poisonous mixture of brutal PC and equally brutal Thatcherism (in which the Prodi presidency was particularly guilty) are all an affront to my conscience. But I still think that a united Europe is a necessity, and the history of Italy shows that all the wrong things can be reformed, one by one or all together. British hostility to Europe began long before the idiots in Brussels went out of control; indeed, its unreasoning and frequently mendacious quality was a positive asset to the empire-builders - they could always demonize any opposition by comparing it to England's. That is one reason why Britain has been kept in Europe. It is a fact that, in their campaign to set up the Euro, Andreotti and Vattane' deliberately used Margaret Thatcher as a scarecrow to get the other European government to line up behind their proposals.
The EU is the most recent name for an entity established with the Treaty of Rome of 1956, called first the European Common Market, then the European Economic Community, then the European Union. There seems to be a historical law whereby each British government since 1950 must contribute at least one disastrous decision to the long story of national decline; that of the Macmillan government was to seek admission to the then Common Market, without informing either the Commonwealth governments or British public opinion. The first thing anyone knew of it was when it became public that De Gaulle had vetoed the British entry. This was the real end of the British Empire: all the white Dominions, which until then had taken pride in their connection with the UK, felt rejected and angry, and Macmillan achieved the perfect score of losing all the friends Britain had without gaining anything in Europe. From then on, Britain has been increasingly subservient to the USA, and it is my view that this is only explained by its neurotic attitude to Europe.