Tuesday 16 August 2011

Soros

I see George Soros (doesn't he sound like a Bond villain?) says that Greece and Portugal should abandon the Euro and leave the EU. Well, despite being obvious these suggestions coming from Soros must be considered seriously. Soros is someone you must listen to when talking about big capitalist stuff, this is a subject he is good at. The man makes big money.

He is also a socialist, having clear views that the world's ills could be solved if other people redistributed their wealth. A man who was quite happy to cause immense grief and suffering to ordinary people here in the UK, to make himself a billion dollars. That he drove us out of the ERM was actually a good thing, so maybe it was our own fault and we should watch our politicians more closely.

But he is right again. No country would suffer from being out of the EU ultimately. The poor ones will be destroyed by it, the rich denuded. We are told that for Britain to leave would be selfish, a little Englander move, but we are only in the EU because of the selfishness of a few politicians. In fact, by pulling out we would help ourselves, but also directly the other EU nations, it would only hurt the politicians. Which seems a good enough reason to do it in itself, surely?

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