tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post4730453061986871968..comments2024-02-10T12:12:06.028+00:00Comments on The Real Blog: To save Europe, the euro has to goDavid Boylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11410159311875228620noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169740113013066976.post-73095863271482973212013-05-14T14:16:43.696+01:002013-05-14T14:16:43.696+01:00"We always find ourselves resisting Napoleoni..."We always find ourselves resisting Napoleonic projects. We always resist ultramontanist ones too and any other centralising directives from Rome - or Brussels, as we call it these days. We follow the Reformation path and it may be inevitable that will repeat Henry VIII's secession."<br /><br />Does that really apply to the nation that ruled over 1/4 of the world (and 1/3 of its population), or the nation that continues to preserve some of the most centralized political institutions anywhere on earth? I know we pride ourselves that historically 'our' empire worked on the basis of arms length control and supervision of 'native' institutions, but really it was hardly localism on a global scale was it.<br /><br />The reason we don't like the EU in this country isn't because WE resist centralizing directives from Brussels or Rome, its that we resist centralizing directives from BRUSSELS or ROME!Simonnoreply@blogger.com