Zero-base uniting tendencies

Now that the United Kingdom has officially acknowledged its independence as a nation, it is in position to do some zero-base union calculating as to the benefits of joining with 27 other nations in the EU.

There certainly the benefit of paying less export duties when purchasing products from the other 27  countries in EU, if co-joining with them.  Of course, the UK would have to charge them less in import taxes from them.

In regard to security, the UK's interactions in the INTERPOL system won't change, including even the EU-INTERPOL version.  And of course, the UK remains in NATO and remains in constant contact with the US military.

But the glaring change is in going-it-alone on immigration governmental policies and quotas.  The UK's borders will be solely under their own control--at least, that is an intended consequence of leaving the EU.

I believe that no country is actually capable for long of withstanding the migration of peoples into or across any artificially-drawn no-man's land.  For desperate peoples, driven and motivated, by the survival drive will accomplish penetration through any resurrected boundaries of any country.  In other terms, man is driven by the herd instinct, no matter the cost in human life. 

What any nation should do, when invaded by hordes of peoples is seek to accommodate the influx as best it can--as does Germany, Turkey, and Jordan, today's humane exemplars in the Middle-East migration.  It will be recalled that the Roman Empire attempted to withstand the human hordes from overrunning its northern borders only to find eventually that their cities, Rome among them, were sacked and destroyed.

Natural forces combined with social exigencies ensure that the human sapiens species will always be on the move across the world, no matter what obstacles are set in his path.

It seems to me that the UK is attempting to maintain a posture of international prominence among nations as it once had a century or two previously--when the English navy ruled the seas.  Not anymore, however, are its efforts as fruitful.  Instead, the UK's joining with other nations to achieve a common interest among them all just makes sound sense: as in the case of lowering tariffs among most favored nations; and benefiting from EU money to go to its poorer neighborhoods.

Actually, the drive toward globalization is not that of the EU or any other particular conglomerate of nations, but of international trading itself as represented in the stated aims and goals of the World Trade Organization.  That is to say, the movement oi globalization is not that of any established assemblage of governments but of trading partners in international commercial ventures, e.g., trading members of a free trade organization, such as the WTO or the regional NFTA.



  



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