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

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> anybody, even Germans, should tell the Brits what to do


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38ahhWX-BU

2.13 - 2.42 (English subtitles)


On 15.06.2016 00:05, ish mailian wrote:
> 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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