Oh I wasn’t going to vote for Ukip!! Jesus. I’m thinking more about a future EU referendum. Five years ago I would have voted to stay in with head and heart, in two years’ time it would probably only be with head. The romantic post-war “we’re all in this together” notion that Nojaboja refers to just doesn’t seem to cut it anymore, for me anyway - it feels like that notion is now largely providing cover for business to get what it wants. Sure, I might profit from all those cheap plumbers, the UK as a whole almost certainly does, but isn’t that just a variation of the “hey, all these Occupy kids have iPhones” argument? (and do you think there were no British plumbers before the EU?)
The argument that people aren’t voting in EP elections because they’ve forgotten about WW2, or because the media is doing a poor job doesn’t really cut it for me either. There can be a peaceful community of separate states without a single European polity, without people being expected to politically conceive of themselves as being Europeans. Such solidarity, if it is to exist, has to be genuine and meaningful, it can’t/shouldn’t just be imposed from above by the EC via the media.
Anyway three comments is probably enough on an article about Ukip being racist to Lenny Henry, thanks for the debate!
