Lucien wrote:I don't think it's wrong - Londoners and northerners share the same government.
My analogy was less to do with government and more about money being put into a pot and then being distributed according to the needs of each country.
Now I get you want to live under a EU government, so that London and the north would be akin to the UK and Poland, but I don't. If I wanted to be in the EU or have a single European government then I'd have no issue with money going where it's deemed fit to go.
Where have I argued for a EU government? The current system worked well, I wouldn't be outright opposed to a "superstate" but would need to know more about it to see if I supported it.
It only is from your perspective. Imagine a Marxist wanted to take most of your money to distribute it to Asia and you weren't for that. They could pull out the old "selfish" line.
What's a Marxist got to do with anything? Who is taking most of our money at the moment? Since when were we in a trading union with Asia?
If the EU started inviting in Asian countries, then some of our money would go there, the same as it does with Poland. That's not happened and there are no plans for it to ever happen.
You're further along the socialist line from me in one respect, is all.
It doesn't really have anything to do with socialism. Funds are paid into the EU from every member state and are then distributed amongst the states as per the needs of the states. We have done very well out of the whole thing, even if our headline figure looks higher than some other countries.
Think of it less like socialism and more like a big company buying a struggling company and then pumping in resources to make that struggling company succeed. In the end the whole organisation grows and becomes more profitable.