Keith Hudson wrote: > I don;t agree -- big business will go along with the EU with alacrity > because they always make a bee-line for government in order to get > privileges, as Harry often observes. But they're not the main drivers.
The ERT's own documents show that they are. ERT members' behavior is also pretty telling (e.g. in the pro-EU campaign in CH). > Their main motivations are to make money, not to get involved in politics > directly. To make money (in the east), they have to get involved in politics (eastern enlargement). A means to an end. > (The only exceptions to this being some entreprneurs of the old > school -- that is, the particularly corrupt ones, particularly Italians and > French.) Nonono, thesa guysa don'ta needa da easterna enlargementa ! The Albanian/ Romanian mafia is a pretty nasty competition on one's own territory... > In England, according to the Institute of Directors, big business > is divided about 50:50, and according to the Chambers of Commerce, most of > their members are against the EU (about 60:40), seeing no particular > advantage in the EU and the Euro except a 0.25% reduction in exchange rate > commissions. England is different because it's leaning to the other side of the Atlantic (having incorporated Maggie T's motto that everything good comes from west and everything bad from the continent..). Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
