Gareth wrote:jont- wrote:Well, since we were collectively stupid enough to vote leave.....
What is your position if the reports of the move to a
European super-state [thenews.pl, source is 'TVP Info' Polish news website] prove to be well founded?
Given it only seems to have been proposed on the back of us voting to leave the EU, I'm not sure how helpful it is as a question. States within Schengen already don't have internal border controls, so I'm unclear as to how this would be different. Arguably if the border controls to the outside of schengen worked, you wouldn't have situations like the jungle at Calais, because these people would be picked up at the points of entry (having said that, you're probably unable to stop illegal movement - that's the point about it being illegal
).
I don't know about a fully unified tax system, but I'd certainly like to see the removal of the ability of firms like google, amazon etc to fiddle their corporation tax to the lowest rate country and instead contribute their fair share.
Unified armies? Well if that stopped our vanity trident replacement project, I'm sure we could think of lots of more useful things to do with the money.
I'm sure there would be lots of problems with a superstate - not least accountability and stopping pork barrel politics - and of course it's easy to dismiss out of hand as being undemocratic, unrepresentative and inefficient. But I come back to an earlier point made - given country boundaries are pretty much entirely artificial constructs, why do people feel the UK is the /right/ size to represent/govern them?