A minority German perspective on Brexit
I am grateful to Political Betting for drawing my attention to a fascinating and most amusing and informative article which has been put on the "Global Britain" website by a gentleman named Brian Monteith, and contains a speech given at the House of Lords by a very distinguished german banker, Dr. Markus Krall.
Dr Krall is the first to admit that his view of the Brexit negotiations is not that of the present German government or mainstream media but it is, nevertheless, extremely interesting.
As a taster here are a couple of quotes:
"The presence of Britain in the EU was in the German view a necessary counterweight to the school of étatisme, the primacy of the state bureaucracy coming from Paris. Now this balance of power in the EU is damaged.
To put it bluntly: You guys are leaving us alone with a bunch of socialist Latin-European nut-heads.
We are not delighted."
"... to imagine Britain could ever be willing to continue the huge transfers which were one of the main reasons to leave the club is totally bizarre. However, bizarre and Brussels are compatible. The British tolerate this kind of thing by calling it “eccentric” which means several standard deviations away from the norm of mental sanity."
(Critics of Brexit) "point out to us that 30,000 EU regulations and laws supposedly need to be renegotiated between Great Britain and the EU27 and that it would be impossible to technically achieve this. In this we can find a misunderstanding and an involuntary confession:
The misunderstanding is that Britain and the EU have to agree on all paragraphs of this deluge of laws. Is it not rather a sovereign decision of the United Kingdom to adopt these regulations partly, in full or not at all? If the EU views some of them as conditional for a free trade agreement they should draw up a list and use CETA and TTIP as benchmarks. Then one can discuss if the UK can accept that list or not.
Now to the involuntary confession: We are flooding the continent with so many regulations, laws, executive orders and decrees that it becomes impossible with normal human capacity to comply with the law. Winston Churchill had a comment on this: 'If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law'. Exactly! Juncker’s minions have over delivered on this by a factor of three."
You can read the whole article at
http://globalbritain.co.uk/a-german-perspective-on-the-brexit-negotiations/ and I advise reading it.
Dr Krall is the first to admit that his view of the Brexit negotiations is not that of the present German government or mainstream media but it is, nevertheless, extremely interesting.
As a taster here are a couple of quotes:
"The presence of Britain in the EU was in the German view a necessary counterweight to the school of étatisme, the primacy of the state bureaucracy coming from Paris. Now this balance of power in the EU is damaged.
To put it bluntly: You guys are leaving us alone with a bunch of socialist Latin-European nut-heads.
We are not delighted."
"... to imagine Britain could ever be willing to continue the huge transfers which were one of the main reasons to leave the club is totally bizarre. However, bizarre and Brussels are compatible. The British tolerate this kind of thing by calling it “eccentric” which means several standard deviations away from the norm of mental sanity."
(Critics of Brexit) "point out to us that 30,000 EU regulations and laws supposedly need to be renegotiated between Great Britain and the EU27 and that it would be impossible to technically achieve this. In this we can find a misunderstanding and an involuntary confession:
The misunderstanding is that Britain and the EU have to agree on all paragraphs of this deluge of laws. Is it not rather a sovereign decision of the United Kingdom to adopt these regulations partly, in full or not at all? If the EU views some of them as conditional for a free trade agreement they should draw up a list and use CETA and TTIP as benchmarks. Then one can discuss if the UK can accept that list or not.
Now to the involuntary confession: We are flooding the continent with so many regulations, laws, executive orders and decrees that it becomes impossible with normal human capacity to comply with the law. Winston Churchill had a comment on this: 'If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law'. Exactly! Juncker’s minions have over delivered on this by a factor of three."
You can read the whole article at
http://globalbritain.co.uk/a-german-perspective-on-the-brexit-negotiations/ and I advise reading it.
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