I dipped into Alistair Cooke's The Americans this afternoon and came upon a paragraph in which he looks forward to a time when Britain is only one of the United States of Europe.When,as he says,the half hour television evening news round ups would then carry on the spot reports of not only a murder in Chelsea and a disappearance in Dorset but also a kidnapping in Berlin,a strike in Stockholm,a fire in a hotel in Lyons,a power failure in Oslo,a protest march in Brussels,a bank robbery in Genoa,a drug arrest in Amsterdam,a shoot out inMadrid.
After watching this evenings news I wonder,where ever he is,will he know how right he was.And how does he feel about Britains future,separated still from the rest of Europe by those few miles of water.
So, dumb question from the American: England is not a part of the European Union then? I realize that Great Brittain is not just England.
ReplyDeleteThe media has such a huge presence now, all those things happened back-in-the-day, we unfortunately just constantly hear about them now. I don't think it's necessarily a good thing.
Many years ago when I was young we voted to join a European Economic Community.Not a Greater European Political Community that grows ever larger and feels it has the right to tell us what we can or cannot do.Remember we have no written constitution as you have.
ReplyDeleteNot long ago our evening TV news was UK news with whatever European news affected us.Now the inane ramblings of a mad French/Italian president and their wives latest CDs are thought news worthy.