THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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Imperfect EU a bulwark against the return of fascism 

Imperfect EU a bulwark against the return of fascism 

Re: “The lies started with ‘Brentrance’ in 1972”, Have Your Say, yesterday.

As is my wont, I often take in The Nation’s news while having breakfast. In my incredulity at Nigel Pike’s typically venomous, spittle-flecked response to my quite proper taking to task of his excuses on Wednesday, I inadvertently pebble-dashed the table with bits of eggy stuff. Such can be the consequences of spontaneous laughter.
Why, oh why does Nigel stubbornly persist in trying to defend the indefensible, and tiresomely present the fact that his politics are inimical to democratic philosophy and practice? To repeat the point: Nigel and his ilk parasitically adopt democratic principles only when it suits. To be sure, and given the record of his extremist beliefs, it is entirely understandable that he would blindly strike out at anything contrary to his outre worldview. 
Perhaps the patently xenophobic Nigel needs to be reminded that he was not the lone spectator to developments in the 1970s. As such, nobody suggests that the EU is perfect – that which is crafted by the hand (or mind) of man is unlikely to be. But what is the alternative? A return to that which plagued parts of mainland Europe in the inter-war years and directly led to another, even more destructive conflagration? On that we read little of worth from our intrepid correspondent. Perhaps, therefore, the far-right Nigel Pike might wish to advocate more of the bigoted cancer currently infecting the body politic of Hungary, Spain, Italy, Poland, and so on?
Little Englander (or, now Thailander?) Pike, the “foreigner in Phang Nga” as Ian Martin tellingly calls him, is a rabbit trapped in the headlights of his own making. He still desperately clings to extreme and universally discredited zealotry, thus rejecting anything that even remotely smacks of participatory democracy. Such insanity is to be rejected out of hand. 
Dr Frank
Bangkok

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