So Jean-Claude Juncker has said that he wants the expansion of Schengen, the euro to

[Burney]

The Schengen-thing is inevitable, I think, likewise the euro; rather like opening the stable door after the horse has already bolted in, you might say. And I'm not sure Europe can actually afford an army, politically or otherwise. Unless that "army" is ISIS, I suppose.

He's just showing his desperation.

In a sense, I don't blame the EU lot. They're just doing what they've always said they wanted to do: destroy the nation state and replace it with a vast, centralised superstate run by a largely unelected bureaucracy - this neatly taking those pesky citizens and their feelings out of the equation. The people who irritate me are the UK-based EU advocates who have spent years denying that this is the case.

[redgunamo]

The people who irritate me are the UK-based EU advocates who have spent years denying that this is the case.

Well, quite naturally, this sort feels exactly the same way; that their fathers and grandfathers, and possibly even their great-grandfathers too, let them down, basically sold them off into wage-slavery. Or, at the very least, simply weren't interested in them.

And who's to say they don't have a point.