German domination of Europe? Be it football or European Union politics the Germans always win in the end.

England International Gary Lineker once said: “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end the Germans always win.” 

Politics in the European Union comes across to me as being a similar “game”.  The European Council, made up of the heads of government of the 28 European Union member states, meets at a venue in Brussels around every 3 months to define the EU's general political direction and priorities. It identifies issues of concern and argues over what action should be taken.

The “game” is refereed by the European Council President and lasts for two days.  It concludes with the Germans always winning the argument and telling the other 27 member states what to do.

I actually don’t mind if Germany wants to dominate Europe or if the countries making up the EU want to be marshalled by Germany.  England might even be ruled more efficiently if the Germans were organising things rather than the present British political establishment which seems to be running our country for the benefit of the global financial elite*.

Be that as it may, as a “Little Englander” I would rather see England as an independent country minding its own business outside both the EU and UK.   Let Germany and its followers in Europe navigate their own future.

Charles De Gaulle was right over fifty years ago when he said: “England is in effect insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her markets, her exchanges, her supply lines to often the most diverse and distant countries; she pursues essentially industrial and commercial activities and only slight agricultural ones. She has in all her doings very marked and very original habits and traditions.”  Those words ring just as true today as they did in 1963.

This from 23rd June 2014 by Peter Hitchens on his Daily Mail Blog is on a similar theme.

Some Thoughts on German Domination of the European Union

I admire many aspects of German society and think it is, on the whole and in many particulars, a better-run country than Britain. Increasingly, I wish that Britain had stayed out of the 1914 war, and that this had resulted in a quick German victory over France in 1914, which would in turn have led to a sustainable settlement between the Russian and German Empires in the east, and the survival of both the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires, whose collapse has caused so much misery and continues to do so to this day.

What’s more, I have absolutely no objection to living next-door to a German-dominated Europe, provided that Britain is not required to belong to such an arrangement. And I have never been able to see why Britain should be so required. A German-dominated Europe looks landward and to the east, would always be balanced by Russia (and these days by China, whose influence in Europe is growing very fast). A maritime Britain would need have no conflict with such a continental system.

I agree with much of what he says especially with regard to a German-dominated Europe.

*London City Airport, a valuable piece of English infrastructure, has been sold to Canadian and Kuwaiti interests.
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35666988