Germany and UK in the clinch with the EU in the background

PM Johnson spoke with PM Merkel of Germany. He says she told him that his new proposals are unacceptable. Officials deny she said it this way but, as she doesn't make public what was said, she said it.

President Tusk is angry that this may destroy the EU. He should know that Brexiters don't mind and many even hope for the end of the EU.

Before the referendum Mr Johnson said the EU wants to become a superstate under one authority, just as Hitler did (it also shows how Brexiters speak about the poor while Remainers are in general in favour of austerity). Now he claims that Germany said that Germany has the right to leave the EU but the UK cannot in its entirety because of Northern Ireland. Indeed, as if Germany refuses the UK its right to leave under Article 50. But, we should not forget that Northern Ireland is part of the UK, not part of Ireland nor the EU as the EU is an organisation that unites countries on a voluntarily basis and thus, as long as the UK exists as it does today N Ireland is part of it. The EU should understand that even in N Ireland many consider themselves as British and refuse to see themselves as part of Ireland. And when the EU and its members insist N Ireland can break away from the UK to remain part of the EU than any other region has the right to break away from its own country such as Catalonia from Spain.

A no deal may in the end be the best as no-one wins although it seems PM Merkel said the EU may be able to stop N Ireland from leaving the EU to avoid troubles on the island of Ireland. Does she want war with the UK by suggesting to take away part of another country's territory. Maybe she didn't say this, in that case she must make public what she said or she shouldn't complain opponents say she'd said this. Germans still doesn't seem to understand how hated they are among part of the English (and others) of whom many still know about family and friends who died fighting only a few decades ago to destroy Hitler's German Third Reich while afterwards the liberators of Europe were denied access as founding country of the EU and later again and again the UK had to fight against the German and French partnership that seemed to push the EU in the direction these two countries wanted. And, to make things worse, certain politicians think that the EU should become even more integrated just as Brexiters warn the EU may become a superstate under one authority that dictates its members to balance their budgets. Indeed, many think it's prophesied the EU is the rise of the evil Roman Empire before its final defeat to never rise again and for this reason must oppose it. You may think this is a joke but it's not; remember Ann Widdecombe speech in the EU parliament about the oppressed who stand up against the oppressor while she fails to understand she speaks evil with her hate speeches against the EU but also often against for instance LGBTs. It's also the reason why certain leaders in the US and Israel consider the EU is wrong and oppose it.

Therefore, this is is not my opinion but reality. I remember when I worked at King's College London how a student, thus someone around his 20s, told me how Germany wants to rule the UK and therefore uses the EU. And thus this telephone call between the German and UK PMs can be used to further blame Germany. Read certain comments of Brexiters under posts that discuss the good of the EU in which they don't acknowledge the EU as a voluntary collaboration between countries who were ones at war but about a fascist and nazism empire that wants to take away sovereignty from countries to control them. And thus, for them they must leave the EU and when possible even destroy it. For some it's hate and the longer Brexit continues the more hateful and angry they become they are part from something they don't wish. Unfortunately but out the EU, and certainly not when the EU may decide it no longer wants the UK in is also not much of a solution because than the other side becomes furious and may blame the EU for stopping the negotiations and abandoning them.

Therefore, I've come to accept that always more integration and more Europe as some wish is a dream to remain a dream as it angers people. On certain issues countries will work together while on other issues some countries may act together and some issues are local matters and others don't need to interfere. It is flexible. But, it is flexible whereby the capital not always knows best and can remain silent? Is this possible on a continent with centuries of centralised powers?

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