Europe caused the finacial depression of the last 2 years huh ManBearPig? What a typically uninformed, arrogant and incorrect American comment. You will be telling me you won the Second World War next, ha ha, fucking jokers. Not in reality something that was actually triggered by a liquidity crisis in the United States banking system, along with the irresponsible actions of greedy, crooked American mortgage brokers/bankers. FACT. The reason we chum up to the States, is that its best to keep your enemies even closer, especially with the complete fucking idiots, crooks, clowns and morons you have had in charge of late, whoring out anything possible to make a couple bucks, at the expense of everyone else. Geeze. I was not a fan of our previous Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but it was he that the USA turned and begged to help steer us all out of these problems. They didnt ask no fucking Yank to do it....Your only speaking "English" as we ruled the fucking waves and decided to pass it on to you during British Colonisation.
Hate on the rest of Europe all you want, but not the UK, I dont like the fact we are part of Europe, hate the European Union and feel we should be free of that BS.
Fact: it does not matter who caused the financial crisis; what matters is who came out on top. That would be the US, AS ALWAYS.
The European union was actually formed much like a labor union in the US; the dumb, can't make it on their own, sense of entitlement unskilled assholes such as the rest of europe (minus Germany, France, UK, and the scandinavian countries) said "we want to have electricity and running water like western Europe, but don't want to work for it. Germany's too powerful, let's unionize and make them join".
With the feeling of guilt germany had for WW2, they bowed to England and France's pressures to join the Union, and are now reaping the consequences. If this shit continues, and i'm thinking the "PIIGS" countries will go the way of Greece, sprinkled with the growing anti muslim/muslim invasion sentiment, there will be a shitstorm in Europe within, say, 20 years? This is very much what Hitler preached about Germany being stepped on in the '30s. We know how that ended. At some point the top dog, being Germany, will say "enough".