British subjects warring against their masters - where have I heard of such story before? I hope they are in good numbers, and not expecting any help from Continentals this time.
You mean they are to spoiled, and weak to join the army, the average teen these days has little of a spine. After WW2 there was the cold war which united Europe, and now there is simply no need or population to wage war, saying the EU stopped wars is downright silly. You have proven nothing, we do not need an EU for most things, the EU did not stop war or anything else. There was not a single crisis during the time of the EU that could have caused a European war....
There is such heavy unemployment that even the Armies can pick and choose. You believe that, just as the EU was formed, the need for wars ceased. I'm afraid that, just as you abolish it, the need for wars will suddenly re-emerge. these odd coincidences keep on happening.
Could you just answer my questions please ... Coming from a Belgian that's really funny! Just how much do you think having the European Commission and the European Parliament sitting in Brussels adds to Belgium's economy? And could a country of approx 62 million people (Belgium by comparison has 10/11 million) be of very little meaning outside EU? To be honest, even if it were to be I'd take it rather than being subjected to EU rule. The Conservatives only blow cold on the EU to keep up the fiction that they're eurosceptic. It's not what they say that counts; it's what they do, like increasing our contributions to the EU budget and to the eurozone bailout fund and signing up to the European External Action Service. I think you're right in that there will be an enormous push towards European integration in the near future, but it won't be by referendum. The EU hasn't liked the results of recent referenda. It only wants referenda if it can be sure the results will be to its liking. The Brits won't be pushed into a federal Europe and any attempts to do that will only make us more troublesome. Kick us out. It's a win-win situation for both of us! I agree - Conservatives, including Hannan, are scum, but my reasons for thinking that are quite different to yours. And I'm confused ... are you saying Hannan is a fascist or not? And who do you support? Let's have a look at your party's record. Experience has taught us not to be so foolish as to expect help from the continentals. It's much more likely that you'd send this outfit in to put down any civil unrest. I'd say it's likely, yes. And if it does come to civil unrest, do you think any of us will really care whether we bear arms legally or not?
In that case, I look forward to meeting you on the streets . But seriously, I really hope it doesn't come to that.
I can't help but feel that you've got a bit of bluster in you. Virtually all of the Britons I know are scarcely more than guttersnipes; I doubt they'd actually do something.
Don't make me laugh you cant pick up random people and force them in the army, even for money. they are weak, have no backbone, zero skills and more. The wars will not re-emerge, simply because the youth bulge is long gone, first time for century's.
Wars have nothing to do with 'youth bulges': you can hire soldiers easily enough, the Ghurkhas for instance. Wars are about profit, and capitalist competition for it. Wars would re-emerge within a year of the EU's ending.
Plenty of regions are peaceful without a EU like structure. The EU would not be able to stop a war, what will they do? Throw paper at the invaders?
]Heinsohn claims that most historical periods of social unrest lacking external triggers (such as rapid climatic changes or other catastrophic changes of the environment) and most genocides can be readily explained as a result of a built-up youth bulge, including European colonialism, 20th-century fascism, rise of Communism during the Cold War, and ongoing conflicts such as that in Darfur and
