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Hungary is rejecting the LGBT agenda pressed by the EU. Poland is rejecting resettlement of migrants. Italy is moving further to the right. France is gradually unpicking the single market. Irish populism is gaining traction. Dutch farmers are pushing back against the EU. Germany is pushing back against Net Zero. All of these things point to a great unravelling of European solidarity (if ever such a thing really existed), and the harder the EU pushes, the more the backlash grows.
The EU seems singularly incapable of listening to the mood music. We should not be surprised to see a European parliament dominated by populist and "far right" parties. It would appear that everything the EU is doing is in defiance of European peoples. Even Macron has said that France might vote to leave if ever they were given a say in it.
Weirdly, though, this has not influenced the thinking of British europhiles in the slightest. It turns out that European voters are not the enlightened progressive liberals we've been told about (if their voting habits are anything to go by).
It would seem that leave voters rather had a point. Despite all the democratic signals, nothing seems to have registered with the EU which shows no sign of responding to feedback. Instead it launches working groups to "combat misinformation" and to censor social media. It's the voters who are wrong!
But then this is how we know the EU is not a democracy. If it did heed the message then it would enact policies that reflected the will of Europeans as reflected in the parties they voted for. But that's not going to happen. It is as leavers always said it was. The EU primarily exists to prevent national democracy. It looks like that arrogance will be its undoing.
Hungary is rejecting the LGBT agenda pressed by the EU. Poland is rejecting resettlement of migrants. Italy is moving further to the right. France is gradually unpicking the single market. Irish populism is gaining traction. Dutch farmers are pushing back against the EU. Germany is pushing back against Net Zero. All of these things point to a great unravelling of European solidarity (if ever such a thing really existed), and the harder the EU pushes, the more the backlash grows.
The EU seems singularly incapable of listening to the mood music. We should not be surprised to see a European parliament dominated by populist and "far right" parties. It would appear that everything the EU is doing is in defiance of European peoples. Even Macron has said that France might vote to leave if ever they were given a say in it.
Weirdly, though, this has not influenced the thinking of British europhiles in the slightest. It turns out that European voters are not the enlightened progressive liberals we've been told about (if their voting habits are anything to go by).
It would seem that leave voters rather had a point. Despite all the democratic signals, nothing seems to have registered with the EU which shows no sign of responding to feedback. Instead it launches working groups to "combat misinformation" and to censor social media. It's the voters who are wrong!
But then this is how we know the EU is not a democracy. If it did heed the message then it would enact policies that reflected the will of Europeans as reflected in the parties they voted for. But that's not going to happen. It is as leavers always said it was. The EU primarily exists to prevent national democracy. It looks like that arrogance will be its undoing.
