Tim Drayton:
That was not the point. The point of the exercise was to show that I could easily find an article with a headline purporting to show that the EU will survive and prosper. If need, be I could find another ten or even one hundred.
I doubt it .... because I tried it! Are you really telling me that only you have this mystical intellectual power that directs only you to these wholly reliable sites that support your opinion? Like all these numerous surveys you quote but seem unable to present?
Out of curiosity I have just Googled ‘
Will the EU survive and prosper?’ (
Your words). I got to page 4 before I found a reserved ‘YES’ and it was in the
UEF MANIFESTO 2014 ....... (
The Union of European Federalists). Maybe it was just a wee bit biased but I read it anyway and even their first paragraph can hardly be claimed to inspire confidence in a secure future for Europe:
"
Europe is passing through a period of turbulence and uncertainty. The European Union itself is in deep trouble. The long financial crisis, which has led to economic stagnation, unemployment and political fragmentation, has exposed not only the flaws in the design of the Economic and Monetary Union and the weakness of EU institutions, but also a lack of commitment to European integration by EU states. As a result, the European Union has lost the trust of many citizens.” This sort of rhetoric obviously convinced you that the EU is as solid as a rock!!!! The UK will survive and prosper when the EU as a political institution, is no more than a few paragraphs in history books. Even the UEF agree it can only survive if changes are made .......... they believe a full Federal State of Europe is the answer. I don't!
My aim was to demonstrate the futility of this silly exercise of using a search engine to find a dozen or so articles with headlines that appear to 'prove' the point you wish to make, copying and pasting them into a thread and then imaging that you have achieved anything.
All you have demonstrated is your own futility. I have come to the conclusion you lack the power of reason and the ability to analyse what you do read ....... which seems to be not that much .......... because you think you know it all anyway.
I am sure that if I wished to 'prove' that Microsoft Corporation is run by aliens, I could find something on the Internet to 'prove' this. There is so much nonsense on the Internet. Just because an article chosen at random there appears to support your point does not on its own count as proof.
Boy you are very mixed up! What you describe maybe your idea of '
proof' but it certainly isn't mine, I am far more difficult to convince .... as you may have gathered?
The internet used by people of reasonable intelligence is an excellent source of information on just about anything but just typing something as a general query and then posting the first answer you get, without even reading it? That is not only a demonstration of your arrogance and stupidity but shows just how this power at our finger tips and can be misapplied when in the hands of fools. You need to sort the wheat from the chaff, to just quote/post unread links is just laughable.
Tell me, where exactly would you go to find detailed information on say Turkey? Maybe the local Kebab House or a Turkish Newspaper?
