I have always thought that there must be more to human existence than the state. To keep ourselves divided into petty little nation states is to waste our potential. Think what we can achieve if humanity United, combined it’s resources and worked together. Of course, I am well aware of the problems involved in establishing a world government: some say it would be too big to be democratic, while others argue that it would eradicate human variety. Both are problematic although not impossible to overcome: after all, different cultures can exist perfectly well within one country. The Welsh have not lost their welshness despite six hundred years of union with England. Thus I think those who voice such objections do so for other reasons, veiling their arguments with liberal sounding ideals when in fact their arguments are born of xenophobia and nationalism. They want to maintain essentially arbitrary borders and preserve the ‘us’ and ‘them’ mindset, not realising that, far from creating a universal, bland culture, the mixing of peoples is the only way a culture evolves.

That’s why I plan to vote to stay in the EU in the referendum, the date of which I am told will be announced later today. The European Union might not be perfect, and I certainly have problems with CaMoron’s so called renegotiation (he wants to remake the EU in his own neoliberal image, bastardizing it from it’s original ideals), but there are ideals at stake here which are far more important than the present moment. This is about going beyond nation states; it’s about working with our neighbours rather than building walls. It’s about not shutting ourselves from the world. Surely we cannot be so shortsighted, so moronic, that we decide to shut ourselves off for our closest neighbour. Europe is not perfect – it needs reform, but we need to e a participant in that reform, not a shortsighted irrelevent little island to it’s north.