Meanwhile...something I've long suspected but haven't said on here (since I don't have any publicly available sources to back it up) is now proven correct: (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3662827/Has-Britain-avoided-European-superstate-France-Germany-draw-plans-morph-EU-countries-one-control-members-armies-economies.html)

That the entire point of the EU was to end European nation-states.

Difficult to call how Boris really feels: (http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/a-journalist-has-shared-a-story-about-boris-johnson-that-completely-undermines-his-authority-on-the-eu--bkoHJPBuVZ)

It's coming out in floods now and is undeniable. Idiots are feeling they can stay their idiot things on the streets.

I was appalled to learn that my parents voted leave, but not surprised. They switched to reading The Daily Mail around 10 or 15 years ago and have becoming increasingly bigoted with all of society's problems resting at immigration. I was recently told by my father than he was at the doctor's recently and there were people speaking foreign languages and enough was enough - standard bigoted crap. Tried to ask him what his opinion was on me living in France where I sometimes have the audacity to speak English in public - no answer. Asked him how he felt about his immigrant son, married to his immigrant wife with their quarter Lebanese, quarter Turkish grandchild - no answer. Asked him whether he had a low opinion of his daughter who was an immigrant in both Australia and New Zealand and who had two half-Indian children with an immigrant to New Zealand - no answer.

Trump CORRECTLY articulated the issue that speaking English is assimilation and the strength of the nation. Bush is DEAD WRONG on this issue. All one needs to do is travel to Europe. Ask an American what they are and they will respond something along the lines of, “Half Germen and half Irish.” In Europe, such a combination is extremely rare because they do not speak the same language. I could no more hire someone in the United States as a receptionist to answer the phone only in Japanese any more than I could hire someone in Japan who answered the phone in Spanish.



One of the traits that identified the decline and fall of Rome was the loss of a common language. As more and more people were being attracted to the Roman Empire as we see with the United States today, their failure to learn Latin contributed to the collapse of the Empire exactly as the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel. In the early days, immigrants learned Latin and entered as servants, house masters, and educators. After 180AD, the influx increased where the population of the city of Rome reached 1 million, something that would not be seen until London during the Victorian era. As immigration increased and jobs became more as common workers, the language began to divide taking on dialects mixed with their own language that then set the stage for the Latin based difference between Frankish (French), Anglo tribal variations (English), Spanish, Italian, Greek, and German. A common language enables greater communication and economic strength. Breakup that bond and you lose economic growth resulting in the precise outcome of the Tower of Babel.

Sorry, Bush is very wrong and Trump is correct. What made the Roman Empire last so long was the single language. As Julius Caesar said in war - “Divide and conquer.” If a nation diverts into regional languages, they will lose the bond that holds the nation together. Any empire with multiple languages split according to language. Hello! Look at Ukraine East (Russian) and West (Ukrainian).

Of course, the media takes Bush's side without the slightest bit of question.

That's actually a more complicated issue. In my case I choose to practice what I preach and communicate in German as much as possible while I am here. Having a common language is much more important than people think it is.