Pyrpolizer wrote:if Australia is the type of fanfare nation as you claim Paphitis, please extend them my best wishes for quick recovery
A fanfare Nation. no we are no fanfare Nation.
Australia is a Nationalistic Sovereign nation. We are fully independent, stand on our own feet. have a strong military with state of the art equipment and capabilities.
We, like the Greeks place HUGE emphasis on things like ANZAC Day, Australia Day and in many ways we are very similar to the Brits, Americans and Canadians. Hence we get along so well.
Australians like honest, heart on sleeve politicians they know are there to make Australia Great, and to work for Australia. that is what they see in Nigel Farage. If Nigel was Australian he would go a long way.
Australians are NEVER blinded by ideology or Parties. They swing and vote for the man. They are not like Cypriot voters who vote for AKEL or DISY their whole life. Australians will analyze the person and when the smell a rat you can forget it. This is what happened at the last election. Australians sniffed a Corbynated Chicked KFC in the form of Shortfused who was a Communist Rat and they sent him a clear message - that message was in Australia Communism and Socialism and Corbynated Chicken is very bad for our health and we prefer more organic stuff and went for ScoMo, the Son of The Father Donald J Trump, soon to be joined by The Holy Ghost Boris Johnson or Nigel Farage.
Australians are not interested in things like EU. It's not in our DNA. We want our Aussie Dollar and our independence. We are happy to have a trade block as long as that is all it is, but we want out own Banks, our own Military, our own courts, our own borders so we can control who is welcome and who isn't, and we want to form our own alliances. There is Buckley chances in hell of Australia joining an EU type block even if it was in Europe. Australia would be more like a Norway and Switzerland and go its own way. It would never join an EU. That would be unacceptable to most Australians and this is what mindset Europe is seeing with the Brits.
One day, Europe will once again be relying on our military like it had to in the last 2 World Wars.
Australia always comes first. Very soon, the EU is going to get a very big insight into this Anglo mentality. The EU is producing more Brexiteers and Anglos dig in and fight on. They don't raise white flags. They are not going to say we are small and need the EU. That is NEVER going to happen.
The EU has shot itself in the foot.
The EU is fighting a losing battle here. The EU needs to give up now and save face.