All empires implode eventually.
Just a question of when.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Enjoy your last day brexiteers.
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All empires implode eventually.
Just a question of when.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
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Centralised "government" of a large area doesn't last long,
The Roman Empire and several before it fell apart.
The Russsian Empire fell apart.
The United States Of America is not really a harmonious land due to the many inter state conflicts.
Countries with centralised Government controlling every minor detail ( such as East Germany ) can go into sudden melt down, often triggered by some relatively minor event the consequences of which overload the centralised decision makers.
EU is not an empire.
Why dont you learn what the EU is and how it operates, then you would be able to talk from a position of knowledge.
It must be sad going through life unable to learn and make informed choice.
I feel sorry for you.
The eu is certainly an empire.
Controlled by a cartel of unelected has beens.
You voted to leave the empire. Good choice.
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The EU is not an empire, it is in fact far more democratic than our protofascist government
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When did ours burst?
When do you think it got inflated?
remoaners have been very angry for nearly 4 years now.
Please could you explain what criteria the EU has that makes it an Empire.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/03/29/the-eu-is-an-empire/
"The EU is a deplorably undemocratic institutional construct that is so complex that you cannot understand how it works without extensive investigation."
Wolfgang Streeck
spiked: To what extent does the EU resemble an empire?
Streeck: The EU has a centre and a periphery, with a steep gradient of power between the former and the latter. The centre imposes and enforces its political and economic order on the periphery, in the form of the common currency, the ‘four freedoms’ of the common market, and a general requirement of adherence to ‘European values’.
Moreover, compliance is rewarded by fiscal transfers, in particular, the structural and social funds. The centre – it is still an open question as to whether this is Germany alone or Germany and France – offers military protection to countries on the periphery in return for imperial loyalty. (See Poland and the Baltic states, in particular.)
Peripheral countries that do not follow the rules, such as Greece under the SYRIZA government, are punished by central institutions like the European Central Bank, while central countries like France are exempt from punishment. Sometimes wayward governments in peripheral member states are replaced by the centre with imperial governors, as happened with the replacement of Silvio Berlusconi by Mario Monti in Italy, or of George Papandreou by Lucas Papademos in greece.
And exit from the empire is, while possible, made as difficult as possible, in order to prevent peripheral countries negotiating terms of membership more suited to their particular situation.
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Spiked online is a website funded by donations from the Charles Koch Foundation
Matthew Elliott who is the real power in Johnsons govt is akso linked to Koch
Right wing libertarians, brexit funders, fossil fuel interests.
Ryler youve been conned, please try and find a real description of an empire
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