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

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Everybody and anybody, even Germans, should tell the Brits what to do.
The Brits, of course, being Brits, will do exactly whatever they want.
The Brits welcome a good argument, even from the outsider, not that
they will listen. No harm, no foul. England can handle it. No need for
the Germans to come to the rescue. The Greeks know what that does to
people.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> 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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