[higherpurpose]

I hope it's more like "EU" than Europe, because countries like UK seem more than happy to sell the rest of us out. In the end the solution will be to build trustless P2P networks, everywhere, but the only way US and US companies will agree to allowing something like that will be if EU pushes for localized EU networks and stuff like this to make their life too hard otherwise.

[tlarkworthy]

I was just reading the history of the EU. So UK was part of the outer 7 European states. On the enlargement of the pre-pre-cursor of the EU to the pre-cursor of the EU in 1960

"However, then–French President Charles de Gaulle saw British membership of the Community as a Trojan horse for US interests, and hence stated he would veto British membership." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Six)

Ha, he was probably right. But you will never get rid of us now!

[rm445]

Er, the UK has been part of the European Union since 1973.

[mariuolo]

Cameron promised a referendum. I hope they get out for good this time.

[lotsofmangos]

Heh, there is absolutely no way that the Conservatives will let the UK leave the EU. This is an empty promise to try and stop their grassroots voting UKIP.

The thing it, while many of the people who vote Tory want the UK to leave Europe, the people who actually fund the Conservative party make a lot of money from being part of the EU. The disconnect between the voters and the funders of the Conservative Party has been a defining feature of theirs for decades.

This is why mentioning Europe is so destructive for them, because they have to stay in Europe, but cannot publicly admit that.

[Silhouette]

Heh, there is absolutely no way that the Conservatives will let the UK leave the EU. This is an empty promise to try and stop their grassroots voting UKIP.

There will be a certain irony if the Conservatives lose out at the next general election because UKIP divides their vote and something between a Labour landslide and a Labour-Lib Dem coalition happens... because of the AV voting reforms that the Conservatives heavily opposed a couple of years ago.