19-01-2017, 14:13
Jim asks what will be better outside the EU, and the easiest answer is the ability to embrace and react to CHANGE.
Out of admirable principles the EU has unfortunately created a massive bureaucracy. Its Parliament is little more than a rubber-stamping operation for self-perpetuating, self-important and sometimes corrupt officialdom. In its relations with the outside world it is permanently hamstrung by attempts to square the vicious circle of negotiating with one voice and simultaneously representing and upholding the interests of even the smallest minority - hence the Walloons alone were able to delay a trade deal with Canada for years, despite 27 other countries and most of Belgium being in favour it.
Every nodding-dog economist and remoaner will tell you business needs certainty. This is simply self-serving bollocks. Certainty leads to stagnation, it's the Sargasso Sea. Uncertainty is the driving force of capitalism. Certainty is the prospectus of a command economy. Capitalism is about the identification and management of risk. It is about turning risk into opportunity.
Rapidly growing business organisations will almost always have flatter organisational structures to enable quick decision-making. As they grow older businesses tend to layer-up, they become bureaucratic, develop too many rules, and begin to stultify and die. That's where the EU is going; the world's speeding up and it's slowing down. It looks like Jean-Claude Juncker; nice face, touchy-feely, but far too baggy, great for a glass of wine by the fire, but don't put him in your Olympic 400 squad or anywhere near shorts (unless they're liquid).
An organisation that tells you it will take you years to leave it is clearly unable to adapt to change. In a world in which even the climate is changing the ability to adapt to and seize the opportunities provided by change is going to be indispensable.
And because it knows it can't adapt to the future, cannot embrace change the only argument the EU produced before the referendum is still being repeated. Be afraid. (Give me the command economy and a socialist state I've always wanted and I'll reconsider the EU, but we're lumbered with a capitalism, where even the terms used send a message - the EU is a trading BLOCK!)
Out of admirable principles the EU has unfortunately created a massive bureaucracy. Its Parliament is little more than a rubber-stamping operation for self-perpetuating, self-important and sometimes corrupt officialdom. In its relations with the outside world it is permanently hamstrung by attempts to square the vicious circle of negotiating with one voice and simultaneously representing and upholding the interests of even the smallest minority - hence the Walloons alone were able to delay a trade deal with Canada for years, despite 27 other countries and most of Belgium being in favour it.
Every nodding-dog economist and remoaner will tell you business needs certainty. This is simply self-serving bollocks. Certainty leads to stagnation, it's the Sargasso Sea. Uncertainty is the driving force of capitalism. Certainty is the prospectus of a command economy. Capitalism is about the identification and management of risk. It is about turning risk into opportunity.
Rapidly growing business organisations will almost always have flatter organisational structures to enable quick decision-making. As they grow older businesses tend to layer-up, they become bureaucratic, develop too many rules, and begin to stultify and die. That's where the EU is going; the world's speeding up and it's slowing down. It looks like Jean-Claude Juncker; nice face, touchy-feely, but far too baggy, great for a glass of wine by the fire, but don't put him in your Olympic 400 squad or anywhere near shorts (unless they're liquid).
An organisation that tells you it will take you years to leave it is clearly unable to adapt to change. In a world in which even the climate is changing the ability to adapt to and seize the opportunities provided by change is going to be indispensable.
And because it knows it can't adapt to the future, cannot embrace change the only argument the EU produced before the referendum is still being repeated. Be afraid. (Give me the command economy and a socialist state I've always wanted and I'll reconsider the EU, but we're lumbered with a capitalism, where even the terms used send a message - the EU is a trading BLOCK!)