Should Britain now join a "North Sea Union"?

The majority of your country has shown clear nationalistic and overtly patriotic tendencies. No thanks. Edit: oh an read the reply below mine, I think I can rest my case

And well economic union without political union is difficult to say the least.

You Germans had a pretty colourful association with natiomalism at one point didn't you?!

You Germans had a pretty colourful association with natiomalism at one point didn't you?!

What if it was 2 EU's again? Would you want that? Don't forget what EU was like before we all joined one. You had..

Britain as the central power with north countries.
EU with Germany and France as the central powers.

From a strictly economic point of view i've often thought that an optimum zone would be Germany-Belgium-Netherlands-Ireland-Austria-Switzerland-Poland-Scandinavia because all those countries have an export mentality (all have historically averaged trade surplus) and it should not be hard to agree to run fiscal surpluses too.

From a political point of view there are certain advantages to such a North Sea alliance however i want no union with Germany so long as they are willing to pollute our continent. I'd much prefer to seek ties with the Anglosphere.

A union does offer advantages in terms of the capability to create a single market with the easy flow of goods and services. This is stimulating to trade until you decide everyone should be contained in a madly deflationary single currency based on the fiscal policies of the strongest member. The other issues, such as environmental ones (I assume that's what you are referring to and not some kind of hidden racist subtext) are also best dealt with by common agreement.

I would have to exclude Ireland from your proposed N European union unless Britain is also part of it and it doesn't leave Ireland stuck on the Euro. The impact on the Irish people has been every bit as intense as those in Southern Europe and in some ways even harsher. The well off in Ireland are not paying the price, it's the poor. I realise Ireland has shown a capacity for recovery, but they really have no sound reason to be in the Euro and would actually do a lot better going back to the good old Pound Sterling with local informal exchange arrangements they once called the 'Pund'.

Relevance?

The majority of your country has shown clear nationalistic and overtly patriotic tendencies. No thanks. Edit: oh an read the reply below mine, I think I can rest my case

There are a lot of anti-EU in EU, if citizens see an alternative option it will cause a European competition and maybe the collapse of EU.

That was a generation gone, most Germans alive today had nothing to do with that and has no relevance at all to this proposal.

Calm down dear! Was merely a little joke.
Speaking of Germany today, there is a rather alarming rise in support for neo-nazi groups in the country. I would suggest that to be far more of an issue than the justified euroscepticism that the referendum result exposed.

Calm down dear! Was merely a little joke.
Speaking of Germany today, there is a rather alarming rise in support for neo-nazi groups in the country. I would suggest that to be far more of an issue than the justified euroscepticism that the referendum result exposed.