My vision on the United Kingdom and the European Union in ten tweets!

1.       Somewhere I have a sneaky suspicion that the EU is fumbled into a lousy deal with the cunning Brittons, in which the details are hidden in 583 pages of prolixitous crap. The fact that Michel Barnier looked agitated and annoyed tonight, worries me. #Havewebeenhustled?

2.       The British are often cunning negotiators and Europe might not want to push the UK to the edge eventually. Especially The Netherlands – with foreign minister Stef “Exports” Blok – seems one of the countries that might have lost its cool and brought water to the wine during the negotiations.  

3.       I like the British very much, with their extraordinary influence on the popular music culture and their refined tongue in cheek humour. But also with their arrogance, their living in the past, their huge class differences and their corrupted money-hoarding culture at the top of the British society.

4.       I therefore considered their “Suicide by EU”-Brexit as a good thing for Europe, as it would make Europe more decisive, more prepared to action and more solution-minded and – not unimportant – less neoconservative. As far as that is concerned, the next hurdle for the EU is the neoconservative nation The Netherlands.

5.       Don’t get me wrong: the current, neoconservative EU is a farce in comparison with the EU, as it was meant to be at the moment of establishment. The euro and big business rule currently and that is not good. But with the United Kingdom inside the EU that would not have become less.

6.       As long as the European citizens have a sandy path to the powers-that-be in Brussels and the rich-and-famous, as well as big business, have a 16-lane highway, the neoconservatism will remain in charge. The EU should ask itself: what would Willy Brandt, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle think of the current EU. Would they have liked it?!

7.       The fact is, however, that it are first and foremost the nation states and countries –  that the EU-haters love so dearly –  that stop the EU from becoming more democratical. And that make that the European citizens have very little to no direct influence on the EU, just as the small countries do. #Obviouslyanowngoal

8.       And all those countries and nation states seem to be ruled by at one hand the neoconservative money-hoarders and their horse whisperers from big business and at the other hand the narrowmindedness and bigotry of reactionary right, that are scared in the dark by their own night lamps.

9.       Ergo: the coming years NOTHING will happen to further democratize the EU and to turn it into an institute for the people, of the people and by the people – in the broadest sense of the word(!).

10. Yet, “Big Britain” will not be bothered by that anymore during the coming three decades:  while dreaming from their own brave past, their glorious grandeur and their renewed freedom regained on the European Union, they will turn their country into the greatest Open Air Museum in the world. And the world will watch it in “shock & awe”!