May 2nd is the end of the EU

On May 2nd the British vote in local elections and UKIP for the first time are in a position to take seats from the main parties in a way that will change the political landscape of Britain. No effect will be immediately visible, first UKIP opponents will cry about anomolies in voting patterns and protest votes. But in a few months they will see the real risk that UKIP poses and start talking about the EU, if only for appeasements sake.

In 2014 UKIP will be the largest UK party represented in the EU parliament, leaving the Labour Party clear in their wake. Labour might win the general election in 2015 but that is too soon for the public to forget the hatchet job they did on British society and with UKIP gaining support they will drive even more to Farage with their anti British pro EU politics.

By 2020 if the EU has not imploded under its own steam the British will have walked out and it will have become the Franco German shagfest it should have been all along.

sooo... is this good or bad?

the Dutch and Belgians are in between...
the EU is a failed project, we need local leadership

reply to post by dc4lifeskater


To many a Briton it is an absolute result!

reply to post by prelar


Belgium is not to be considered when discussing nation states. Apart from inflicting the President for life of the EC on us they have only ever provided a road between France and Holland.

But here is a purely academic question for you. After many years of EU rule do you feel more or less European?