EU Solidarity and Communality to face sternest test.

I have been what the European federalist fanatics label a euro-sceptic for many long years. Yet even in my novel written in the mid nineteen-nineties, which revealed all kinds of underhand dealings, skull duggery and being fiction even murder, at its conclusion the British hero, nevertheless, headed off to the EU headquarters in Brussels to bring democracy to the entire tyrannical construct. (To clarify the book was set in 2014). Apart from the obvious lack of democracy, initially essential to construct the goal of unity from disparate communities who previously looked to nations to guarantee and underwrite their freedoms, what else formed my deep euro-scepticism? The answer of course lies in my having come from an island nation where the diplomatic double-speak and centuries long deliberate deception of land-bordered nations is not part of the continuing necessity of daily life. Continentals in my view use words like community and solidarity to smooth the reality of double cross and dirty dealing they believe is essential for the survival of local interests in a Continent of ever shifting borders. It has been Britain's political leaders inability to grasp this basic fact at each Treaty advancement that has left their country bankrupt and now mostly owned by foreigners. What Britain has bought for this enormous financial loss, empty coffers and mountainous debt is a call on the solidarity and community spirit of their EU neighbours. Can they now call upon it and will such a call be answered? Early signs are not good. Yet this has been the difficulty in warning against the dangers of authoritarianism and tyranny so evident in the structures of the present EU! It has all been done in the name of communality which humankind so deeply desires and wishes to be true. Hence the lack of success of we euro-sceptics in alerting our fellow Europeans of the dreadful dangers that now so clearly lie ahead. The truth will soon be tested! The following quote is from a Bloomberg report of yesterday: The difference between what Germany and Austria pay to borrow for 10 years widened to a record, while the gap between Greek and German 10-year yields increased to the most in a decade. Lenders from Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and Sweden account for 84 percent of western European bank loans in eastern Europe, Moody’s said. Will the richer EU countries now aid the poorer ones, can the euro currency survive? It appears we will soon find out. If my fears regarding the next steps of the EU are proved wrong, then I will revise my stance on the Lisbon Treaty and indeed push for democracy to be moved to a European rather than a national level. If my earlier fears are proved correct over the next few months, such that solidarity and EU communality proves the chimera I always suspected, then I will push for localism far below the UK former national divides as the best means for individuals to survive this disastrous Depression.