Political rant for the day - EU (What a bloody mess!)

Yesterday I had to endure a trip to the big shitty city (Daisymoo is used to being surrounded by fields , not ugly multi-storey buildings you know...) to undertake a training course - sth about how the EU works.

Bearing in mind that the British government has pretty much signed up for this Lisbon Treaty (which I still don't f**king understand, after spending a day listening to some guy gassing on about it for hours on end), no less without consulting the public, or actually checking to see whether we'd mind being a part of this masquerade, I thought it'd be worthwhile trying to educate myself a little i.e. at least try to find out what we're in for.

Needless to say, I didn't absorb alot from this course (only so much a cow can take - deciding which patch of grass to graze on is mind boggling enough!). Didn't help much that I was surrounded by a bunch smug arsewipes, whom you'd think from the way they talk, were best buddies with the Foreign Secretary or other foreign ministers.

Still, what I have learned about the EU is this:

• The EU institutions are so friggin complex, I'm surprised it actually functions (I mean fancy having a Commission, Council and Parliament mish mashed together - how the fuck do you actually make any quick decisions?? Answer: Never!)


• The EU union probably won't exist in harmony for long, espcially when you're trying to bang 27 very culturally different and stubborn heads together. What's scarier is that Turkey wants to be part of the EU - as if things weren't complicated enough already...


• The Lisbon Treaty means the countries have less say over how they rule their own country (still find the fact the EU wants us to abolish imperial measurements insulting), especially when it comes to EU legislation i.e. if EU puts a certain legislative rule through, we as EU citizens are obliged to implement it, whether we like it or not.

So not exactly a pretty picture.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not completely Eurosceptic - I'm all for free trading and free travel between states without need of a visa. I just dont see why the EU states have to handcuff themselves to each other.

Other reason I was not too impressed at course: some plonker spilt his coffee all over my notes, which I spent whole day scribbling out.... not his notes,,,,, MINE!!!!