I do hope the people of the EU will figure out what that organism actually is, rather than what it pretends to be.
It is not benign, it is selfish.
It is not flexible, it is immobile.
It is not pro-free trade, it is protectionist.
It is not democratic, it is bureaucratic.
It is not a voluntary club, it is a prison you are not permitted to leave without being punished.
It is not a harnessing of equals, it's another attempt at yoking Europe into a Franco-German empire, with those two countries the key beneficiaries.
It has principles, but they are lousy ones, elevating ideals like "solidarity" over saving lives, and caution over innovation.
It believes in the law, but only when it suits it. Note how easily they abandoned the Irish border compromise and the importance of private contracts when things didn't work out well for them.
All of these things are on display.
Britain figured it out before the pandemic. It became visible as a result of the adoption and treatment of the euro as a currency, and its performance during the Great Recession. French arrogance is always on display. The attitude of Germany was revealed over mass immigration. But the pandemic has made it much clearer to everyone what the EU is all about.
Thankfully, we aren't participating in it any more. Or funding it.
But now the remaining EU citizens are confronting the obvious fact of its incompetence over vaccination. And perhaps they will extrapolate from that the truth. It's a lousy organisation.
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