The Euro Crisis Explained...

[Rusty]

And of course it's absolutely essential we stay within the EU.

No it isn't.  We were sold a supposed trade agreement in joining the 'common market', that's all we wanted or needed. All this extra regulation, EU directives for this and that etc are undemocratic and were never voted for. 

When my country was in socialism, a shoe maker would make shoes. Extra shoes he doesn't need, he would sell.

Now he has to sell all his shoes, hoping he'll make enough profit to buy himself one pair.  

Looking at factories. They make a machine that automates work of 5 people. Instead of letting machine do the work and let people rest, they fire 4 fifths of the workforce, and those left working have to work even harder job of servicing machines. Something very wrong with that picture. Technology, instead of making lives easier, is making problems. Those Ned Ludd guys were perhaps not that crazy after all.

Spot on there Slaninar. It's all a huge vanity project that takes no mind of ordinary people .  When reduced to a simple analysis such as the one above no amount of huffing and puffing can deflect from the truth, which is that large business interests are making a play for government.