Can kicking down the road

The European Union is often described by Euroskeptics as a EUSSR, akin to the old Soviet Union (presumably without the nukes and army).  If that's the case where are we timeline wise with 'our' version of the USSR ? I would say that we are probably in the early 1980s :  despite economic stagnation , the EU is still there, muddling through  and it looks as stable as ever if one believes the propaganda of the press and the BBC. Europe has a new, young and charismatic figure head. Not Gorbachev but Marcon. He is seen as a reformer against the old guard, so I guess Merkel is the Brezhnev of the situation. Underneath the surface things are different : whether it is the east Europeans in revolt, the Brexit decision or the problems of the single currency,which haven't and will never go away until the EU becomes a USA of Europe . The EU is very much like the stagnant USSR of the 1970s and 1980s and it is going to have to change or die. It looks like it is going to die, not with a whimper, but a bang. It all depends on how far Italy, Poland, Hungary and the rest are pushed around. The answer is - looking at Brexit - there will be a lot of pushing around. Doesn't matter how big you are, unless you are Germany , the invulnerable country, the rest can get kicked around by the EU.

Yet here in Britain, it is certain that the powers that be have decided that we are to remain in the EU in all but name. In fact the current proposals are actually worse than if we remained as full memebers. Maybe that is the point, so remainers can say ' hey this is the best deal and it's worse than staying in. So let's stay in'. The alternative is that May and her entourage really believe the guff they're coming out with. That's even more scary to be honest.  But let's say that we leave on the latest fudge of a fudge of a fudge. We end up following most EU rules, have the ECJ and the EU Council of Ministers setting policy, all of these organs without British votes. That is surely one way to continue to fuel Euroskeptism.  

Just also think that once a referendum - binding or not- is freely ignored and butchered to the point of not even bothering- then democracy ceases to work. In our country we obey the rules, no longer because we are DEFERENT to the elites, but because we know that if those who govern us cock things up, the removal van is there the day after the general election. In short one party is chucked out and another comes in. If that lot are crap, then the other lot get another go.  If and when the elite ignores this, then our whole constitutional system is in trouble.

But will the EU implode before Mrs May can do another fudge ? That's a tough one, as both seem to be able to keep things afloat and kick the can long enough down the road...

My solution to these issues .

Why some more fudge.

Yum.