It is reported that Greece has an entry in the 2016 Eurovision song contest: Utopian Land.
(Incidentally Romania is thrown out of the song contest this year for non payment of the due fees to the relevant European authority).


Considering the tentative agreement that the UK PM developed with the EU a few months ago, it seems that the country would continue to remain on the periphery of the European project when this referendum is lost by the Brexit camp; neither fully in nor fully out – the worst of both worlds, marginalised while mainland Europe continues to integrate to develop the utopia.
This will not be satisfactory to the modern day political classes, even in the medium term and definitely not in the long term and it won't satisfy those politicians who speak up for an integrated union of the current European nations.


Once the Brexit supporters have lost the referendum, it will be necessary to move toward ever closer union in order to seal the referendum result and finish once and for all the argument about the direction in which both the UK and the EU are going.
This is also necessary to nail the concept that a nation can actually leave the EU. To the politicians it would be unthinkable to have the prospect of yet another referendum, 10-20-30 years (say) into the future.


To achieve this it will be necessary to complete certain actions, step by step, convincing the population via a number of means, such as establishing UK governments of national unity, drawn from and staffed by those who are committed “Europeans” while ostracising those who have argued otherwise (politics in the UK are changing greatly at present in any case):-
*The Euro to become the national currency of the UK.
*Following currency union, common rules on taxation across the new Empire.
*Integration of UK national laws with European law.
*Resolution of the unwritten constitution of the UK, so that it becomes fully integrated with a commonly developed mainland-of-Europe written constitution; this will require that the UK Royal family steps down from their current role in the UK establishment, along with any other residual monarchies in places such as the Netherlands.
*Concurrently, the Church of England would become dis-established and a proportion of premises in the UK should be given over to the new incoming and growing religions, such as Islam and the Catholic immigrants from mainland Europe; this would solve any issues concerning the upkeep of the fabric of those ancient buildings.
*A common foreign policy for Europe can be developed concurrently which will lead to the establishment of standing armed forces with an oath of allegiance to the European authorities and a common flag will be but a detail. Such an oath will be based upon secular principles which will have to be the new across-Europe “religion”.
*Naturally, everyone will be part of the Shengen agreement, national parliaments will act much as the current UK local authorities and lower level authorities can amalgamate as necessary or be dissolved if they prove to be redundant; for instance via the use of single elected mayors dealing with each of the regions.
European federal police, taxation, drug enforcement and similar cross-Europe authorities will be established as a matter of course.
*Current national overseas territories will come under new methods of providing them with foreign and defence policy, this applying to all of those territories currently covered by the UK, France, the Netherlands etc: the purpose of this will be to give the new United States of Europe (USE) access to overseas real estate as a means of establishing itself on the world stage, especially relevant to the new European navy and air force. The USE will be well placed to take on a supra-national role in the world.
*It may be possible for individual regions of the new Europe to participate in international sport (as GB perhaps in the case of this island), at least for some time, but there will also be an aim for the new country of the USE to be the primary “unit” for such as the Olympics.


There is no specific logic to the current location of the centre of this new empire being in Belgium, and it may be that a new capital will be built, perhaps on the banks of the Rhine, or the Danube for instance; somewhere more central certainly and a brand new build, a la Canberra or Brasilia.


Immigration will be a non-issue: the oft-used argument that the best levels of pay and perks have to be paid in order to attract the very best of available international talent will trickle down to all levels of social strata and economic activity.
Europe will have the very best of the nurses, dentists, soldiers, fruit pickers, street cleaners, day labourers and all other manner of trades and professions to continue commercial activity and economic growth.


That about covers it; the rest is just detail.
What's not to like?

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Dave