Hi

I am so happy I decided to leave the Brexit threads.

With another couple of years of migrants filling Italian beaches, endogan hopefully throwing his toys out the pram and no doubt lots of more banking crisis and daily strife hitting Europe then hopefully maybe just maybe if we all promise to be good and sleep with fingers crossed then santa may just bring us a closed sign for next Christmas


Could the European Union fall apart? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38212049

It has been a dreadful year for the European Union. It has just got a lot worse. Next year could transform a looming existential threat into a terminal reality. The end of a joint 60-year project to transform the politics of an entire continent is now a distinct possibility.
Some would greet the prospect with glee, others with horror. But few have thought through what it would mean if the pillars came crashing down.
The Italian vote means, as here, a populist, anti-establishment surge has defenestrated a prime minister.
There, as here, a new prime minister may be anointed without the bother of a general election. There, unlike here, that would probably further stoke the fires of popular discontent.
Either way, sooner or later (which means in 2018) the main opposition, the Five Star movement, could be elected promising a referendum on membership of the euro, if not the European Union itself.
The EU was hardly in a self-confident, ebullient mood in the first place. The continent's economy still stutters. The euro crisis returns with the wearing familiarity of a pantomime villain.
Members question its other great project, the common borderless area, in the light of the migrant crisis. Now this, the second EU straw in a populist gale that will blow throughout next year.
And Italy was the birthplace of the union, where the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957.

Retooling?
You mean we may have to work in the metric system?

I don't think it will implode but it is going through some sort of crisis. Hopefully they will apply themselves to change things and solve some problems but to me the major problem of the E.U is that it went from a very strong, powerful and convincing block into an unstable one and the reason is imo that they should never have let so many join so soon.

An E.U with just a dozen of countries with the strongest economies would have been much better, memberships of other countries should have been postponed until they reach a certain point economically speaking.

Besides culturally it makes it very difficult to find a consensus when you have so many different cultures and economics involved in such a short time.

The E.U is necessary to counterbalance the great world powers.

You may not.

The current dynamic generation does already.

You may not.

The current dynamic generation does already.

Bit worried about my golf clubs.

I think I might have to change them from Metric?

Does leaving mean we will be able to buy and eat bent bananas? These questions like your golf clubs question needs to be addressed right now. I would write my MP but I believe he is still tied up in his wardrobe (bought on his expenses) with an orange up his arse.