(np) "Der Spiegel" knows what's good for the UK ...

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Beside me I have the new print edition of "Der Spiegel" and I feel 
extraordinarily disgusted. Why? They labeled it as a "Special" and they 
have translated all the articles relating to the Brexit referendum into 
English ("23 extra pages in English") so now the British people can read 
in Germany's first news magazine what's best for them and, of course, 
for Europe ... I guess that's exactly what folks in the UK have waited 
for, no? ... Listen to them: "It's smarter to stay. The choice is 
between a moment of pride and a new future built together ..." I don't 
know what's uglier, the whiner stuff - "If Britain leaves the EU on this 
side of the Atlantic while Donald Trump becomes president on the other, 
then seemingly permanent alliances will wobble, and a weakened Europe 
would end up alone, helpless amid myriad global crisis" - or the 
detailed ideas about an adequate British behavior: "(S)hould the British 
vote against Brexit, perhaps by 55% or 60% rather than 50,1%, then that 
would be a mandate. Then the British should stop doing the things that 
have irritated Europe for years: special requests, self-pity and 
wretched haggling over every last detail."

Nobody should tell the British what to do. Actually I envy them for the 
opportunity to make a fundamental democratic choice on EU membership. I 
don't know what I would vote for in such a situation, but I think all 
peoples in the European Union should have the same right.

And media campaigns like this are simply what they are.


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