That they have managed to annoy the most benign and milktoast of world powers into saying 'like it or lump it' to the deal is telling. There was a time when countries which managed to dither, dribble and fuck up royally in the face of a 'larger' power would find themselves on the receiving end of a good, hard colonising.
One wonders if this isn't what the hard brexiteers truly fear about the EU's deal. somehow in their darkest hearts they know the evils the empire has inflicted on the world and now, knowing intimately the depths those evils and having reaped profit from them, fear they will be subject to the same. They fear the revenge of Empire...the strip-mining of their culture, heritage and very futures for the benefit of faceless others in a land far away who chide them with gentle pat-pats that it's for their own good and how very nice it will be to to be civilised like someone else....
And that the EU doesn't seem to be too interested in doing this must wreck their brains so - that they cannot comprehend a larger power ever doing anything in good faith because they know they never have. Anything a larger Power offers must be a step towards some unfathomable cruelty - even if it's not obvious on day one.
But the EU is just one power in the world.
It's almost guranteed to be a clusterfuck now.
It's the Deal, or it's the Extension. And you just know the gangster governments in poland Poland or Hungary will veto the extension in revenge for the slap the EU gave them for breaking the rules.
Which leaves the Deal.
Which is dead.
One wonders if this isn't what the hard brexiteers truly fear about the EU's deal. somehow in their darkest hearts they know the evils the empire has inflicted on the world and now, knowing intimately the depths those evils and having reaped profit from them, fear they will be subject to the same. They fear the revenge of Empire...the strip-mining of their culture, heritage and very futures for the benefit of faceless others in a land far away who chide them with gentle pat-pats that it's for their own good and how very nice it will be to to be civilised like someone else....
And that the EU doesn't seem to be too interested in doing this must wreck their brains so - that they cannot comprehend a larger power ever doing anything in good faith because they know they never have. Anything a larger Power offers must be a step towards some unfathomable cruelty - even if it's not obvious on day one.
But the EU is just one power in the world.
It's almost guranteed to be a clusterfuck now.
It's the Deal, or it's the Extension. And you just know the gangster governments in poland Poland or Hungary will veto the extension in revenge for the slap the EU gave them for breaking the rules.
Which leaves the Deal.
Which is dead.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.