EnglishEdward
Deity
Thank you.
It is a splendid article, but I think it rather overrates the serious of the proposal.
The cynics would say that Churchill perceivd that mainland France was doomed to fall
to Germany, and he suggested Union to get his hands on the French colonies and navy.
Debating the meaning of words is an open ended business; particularly when the
meaning (or as often the range of meanings) varies in at least 3 dimensions:
(1) geography (US english =/ UK english =/ Indian english
(2) past - present - future
(3) lower - middle - upper classes
(4) profession - layman - priest - lawyer - advertiser - project manager
To me, unity has always been about a common purpose,
whereas union is about a common structure.
If Silurian regards the terms as interchangeable, well in many instances they are.
The way I view it the Venn diagram mapping of variant meanings overlaps, and that can
be exploited to deliberally produce statements meaning different things to different readers.
Now to change the topic, it seems that one of Graylings failings may be reversed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48288433
Probation service: Offender supervision to be renationalised
The way I see it, the current arrangements don't work, and it is not so much as the conservatives
have tirmed socialist, but that they have now become afraid to recompete as the interpretation of
cascaded down EU law by the current generation of UK judges means that any award to anyone
would almost certainly be challenged in court laying the UK treasury open to unlimited damages.
So in a strange way, the international corporates who lobbied the EU for the Remedies Directive
have unintentionally shot themselves in the foot by building in a risk bias against outsourcing.