yes, 3, done my job, I don't ask you, I know you haven't.

Because he preferred to control money rather than having an all-servile Bernanke printing it. I would rather have Rothschild to be in control of the printing too.

That would be a different "Germany" from the "Germany" whose banks lent all that money to other European countries in the first place, I guess.

Psssst, that's New Jersey. Heh, not a place with a Swiss-style reputation, either! (Australia is NY state)

Admittedly, the EU is better at handling things. Their secret is the monetary union that has endless structural problems, the mischievous accounting methods they use, and yea, the expansionary mentality of building a neo-napoleonic empire...

The language we're writing in today is Germanic, and so were the Anglo-Saxons, of whom countless Brits descend today.

Really so you'd rather have a self serving flunky control the fate of millions within a nation, guess we're on different sides of the fence.

Bankers through recent events have shown their willing to help themselves and some.

Control of money = power to corrupt and manipulate and serve you own interests.

No same Germany this time their bankers got greedy and exposed themselves to risk. No doubt the German government will reign them in.

Still stands how did they create that wealth in the first place?

The problem really is no one is accountable for their actions if that be politicans, bankers or corporate CEO's, hence they become self serving and create the mess we belong too today.

The UK epitomises this philosophy.

I prefer to have an economy driven by merchants -a la Hanseatic League- that put at risk their own money and well being, than a highly paid, all-powerful bureaucrat. I prefer the self interest of businessmen than the self interest of politicians, the former have a history of being more rational.

Nobody said anything about brotherly love and I'm not sure where the cuckoo clocks come in.

All of the events you mention were internal events and in no way alter the fact that Britain has existed as a political unity for hundreds of years, (England and Scotland for hundreds of years before that). Furthermore it has enjoyed a long history of independence free from any interference from outside its borders which is unmatched anywhere else in the EU. Moreover, power may have swung back and forth between different factions, and some of those transitions might have been bloody, but the British have nevertheless remained masters of their own affairs. For good or ill, that has worked its way into it's national identity and it's approach to Europe.

Did someone call?