国际英语资讯:Interview: Britain to be better off after Brexit: House of Cards author_时事

国际英语资讯:Interview: Britain to be better off after Brexit: House of Cards author

"The economic (aspect) is important, but the EU is a political structure -- it's a political experiment; it wants to create the United States of Europe," said Dobbs.

He believed that voters were frustrated because they did not have a say in electing senior EU officials, and that was a driving force behind Brexit sentiment.

"The fact is that we have a government in Brussels which we can't elect, which we don't elect, and we can't change it," he said.

"Nobody's ever voted for President Juncker or the European Commission -- the Commission doesn't appear to want to change itself. So, that is what has motivated (my own view)," he added.

Dobbs stressed that it wasn't "wrong" but it wasn't what "electorates in Europe seem to want". And so, everything is driven towards that end political union.

BREXITER THATCHER?

Dobbs told Xinhua that as a close adviser to Thatcher during her time as prime minister, he felt she would now be a Brexiter.

"I don't think Margaret Thatcher would have, for a moment, felt comfortable with that (political union) or accepted it," Dobbs said.

His comments run counter to those of the foreign affairs adviser and private secretary to two former British prime ministers Charles Powell.

Thatcher would have fought to improve Britain's terms of membership of the 28-nation bloc, and would have regarded Brexit "as quitting," Powell told Xinhua last year.