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By *ittie4UCouple
over a year ago
Watford |
"The whole EU thing is currently on everyones thoughts. We don't really know why, we don't really know whether to vote IN or OUT.
I urge you, each and everyone, to travel, to drive throughout the whole of Europe.
Don't fly. Instead, take the car.
I urge you to drive Paris where you will see road and motorway flyovers similar to the Marylebone flyover. You'll see the immigrants living in tents, sleeping bags, underneath the flyover. You'll see similar sights in almost every French town.
I urge you to go to the Alps. Not to the ski resorts such as Chamonix, Les Arcs, St Anton, Mayerhofen or Zeermatt. No, I urge you to visit the valley bottom towns, places such as Albertville, Moutiers, Zell am See.
I urge you to drive to Croatia. Croatia is a member of the EU, but is not a member of the Shenzeng. I challenge you to cross the border into Croatia. When you come back and cross into Slovenia, and have to show your passport, you will understand the futility of the whole Shenzeng thing.
I urge you to tour the Battlefields of the Somme (France) and the Ypres Salient (Belgium). Also, visit the beach in Cap d'Agde which was sooo important in WW1. I urge you to speak to the locals, drink the beers, try the local breads, read about the history of each country.
I urge you to visit some of the worlds worst concentration camps. Not Auschwitz, not Belsen. Yes, they were terrible, but visit ones such as Sachsenhaus, Terrezin, Eden Camp.
Spend a few days back in England, visit the National Arboretum, Worksops Holocaust Centre, visit Belfast, Enniskillen and Dublin. Stay in British hotels, try to ask the receptionist how to get into the centre of the city, ask the receptionist for a kettle.
now, go to Berlin or Amsterdam. Ask the hotel receptionist the same questions.
Stay in hotels and stay in hostels in every capital city. Order pizza. Make a note of which cities will just pop a delicious, topped to the top Chicago Town into the microwave combi, and which cities will hand top the pizza in front of you.
Go to Iceland or any supermarket, check out the bar codes, you know, the ones on your chicken nuggets or pizza, or shepherds pie, check out the producer codes... the oval ones with an E.
When you come home, you'll drive down the Motorway around Calais, into the port. You'll notice the jail like barbed wire fence. You'll see the street lights of the official "Calais Jungle" in the distance. You'll notice the flashing blue lights and the French Gendarmes patrolling the fenced area. You might have noticed the similar Dunkirk jungle (although it's in a railway siding rather than next to the sea). You might wonder if "Something might be kicking off". You'll probably not realise that this is the same every night. And every day. You'll probably wonder "So what on earth did the French ever do for us???" Even though you've just seen one example of what the French are doing for us every day and every night.
When you get home, everything will be just where you left it. Nothing will have changed at home.
But something WILL have changed.
You won't know what has changed, but you will know that something has changed.
That is why I urge you to travel across land, throughout Europe.
Brother."
An excellent post. As they say 'a kilometer travelled is better than reading 1000 Daily Mail articles!'
I think they say that anyway, but maybe it was just me
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Union is NOT leaving Europe!! Lol
We want a Europe, we want to trade, we want to support our neighbours. We don't want an unelected, undemocratic splinter group of European politicians seeking a dream of a superstate to rival that of USA.
Believe in Britain, the idea that without such a political union we would flashback to Nazi Germany in the 1940's is ludicrous, we can still trade and still support Europe, on OUR terms.