Have you ever been to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
Yeah the only redeeming feature of that typically shit north wales town is the announcement on the train.
Valid critique while completely ignoring all the benefits?
That's what I miss with all those EU-damnation statements... most they completely ignore that massive benefits that come from the EU.
Oh i don't ignore the benefits at all, the organisation has achieved some incredible things in a wide variety of sectors, the politic stemming from it has made my life so much better providing a huge amount of opportunities that would other wise have never been there. What I can't believe in is the obnoxious europhilia that ignores the systemic problems in the EU and makes it so anyone who dares to criticise the organisation is labelled as an uneducated xenophobe that doesn't understand and is clearly so ignorant that their opinion is invalid - something which is un-ironically stated among some Europhiles.
I'm pro-EU and definitely pro european integration but I do not support the organisation in its current form, it needs to change become more democratic and reshape the existing treaties to unambiguously reflect its nature and objectives (something which will hopefully happen in the next few years), if not it will only attract more dissent and cause more harm to itself and its citizens than what its done over the last few decades.
