Meanwhile the EU is facing its own crisis. Despite its vast infrastructure, the left is also turning its back on the union. It accuses the bloc of fiscal and social dumping, speculation, tax fraud, high unemployment, an environmentally destructive economic model and wealth inequality.
But unpicking this this tightly knit EU fabric would take several decades. The EU needs reforming and it will change, but it won’t disappear. It’s a collective organisation that has helped weak countries – and they all are weak, in one way or other – focus on their potential to improve. Spain benefited from a unified Europe after nearly 40 years under obscurantist Franco; Portugal did well in the EU group and so do Ireland and Italy. [...]
Socially divided, with unparalleled inequalities weakened workers' rights in spite of tax haven status, England will be no Switzerland in 30 years’ time. It will need the support of the group to thrive again, just as the EU helped rescue its fortunes in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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