Eh oh, time-out!

... if the only way to make the people understand is to bring the nation-state to its fiscal knees, well, let's do it.

The revolutionaries please chill down a bit. May be living in the UK is hopelessly atrocious :) But I mostly like my country and would rather keep it more or less intact for the time being if you don't mind.

We desperately need a democratically-elected body big enough to take on global companies.

It will be either big or democratic, but not both. See, democracy is messy and takes a long to establish itself with all its niceties. And global companies are a threat now.