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Is anyone else taking pleasure from the Euro downfall?

I just watched it slide to 1.20 against the £ and I squealed like a lottery winner.

If the EU is to fail, then its bastard child has to fail first. No Euro equals EU meltdown. One country at a time, if necessary, but overnight collapse will do me just fine. No EU means that we save around £110 Billion every year. It will only take us a matter of months to repay our massive debt. When that is repaid, (having repealed ALL EU statutes and those ridiculous 120,000 regulations they shat out), we can reduce everyone's income tax by at least 50%. The economy, our economy, will shoot back into the black for the first time in a very long time.

Europe, the individual nations, that is, have been mauled. They need time to withdraw from the lunacy, from that failed experiment, from the unelected, from those unaudited freaks in Brussels, so that they can lick their wounds, regroup, sort out their shit and be allowed to be themselves again.

Am I the only one who misses the Mark, the Franc, the Lira, the Drachma, the Punt, and the Guilder?

Am I the only one who visited European countries before the Euro, before the madness, and thoroughly enjoyed visiting because they were ALL different?

Am I the only one who visits them now and thinks "Fuck me. I could be in any one of 12 different countries but they are all the same now"?

I used to like visiting across that narrow, but vital stretch of water that keeps us away from the European mainland. It was their differentness that attracted me. Now they all have the same currency, the same rules and regulations, and nearly all meekly follow whatever the no-marks in Brussels tell them to do.

No. For me the end cannot come soon enough. The EU is like Communism. The idea works fine on paper, but in practise, neither are workable. Worse. The EU damages us in ways we cannot comprehend. Take my figure of £110 Billion a year. Although we only see £48 Million leaving us every day, it is the stuff we can't see that is costing us so much. Every regulation they send over here costs money to implement. I saw/see over at Burning Our Money that the usual number quoted is around £95 Billion a year to businesses (and therefore us) that is the true burden. Add to that our "voluntary" contributions and you get to £110 Billion. A disgusting amount of money. Money that we need to repay the debts of the incompetents we kept voting into power for more than a decade.

It isn't just the money. It's the fact that we (almost uniquely) implement and obey every word, every syllable ever drafted by those fucksticks in Brussels. The Germans, and the French, arguably the Unions architects, sift through the detritus and use what they want and ignore the rest.

We have lost our sense of self. We have forgotten our history. We have forgotten who and what we are.

It's time to delete the EU.

It's time to reinstall our Britishness. Our Welshness. Our Englishness. Our Scottishness. Our Nirishness.

From where I am sitting, it all looks suddenly possible.

Can I get an "Amen"?.

CR.