Europe needs to exit from the EU
Melanie Phillips talks about the quagmire David Cameron has gotten himself into over his apparent support for the Lisbon treaty. Plenty of interest to read here, including the following:
Cameron says he wants to be in a European Union of nations trading with each other, not a political union.Spot on. What needs to be held, but isn't because of incredibly ignorant and selfish politicians, is a referendum on whether this or that country should exit the EU altogether. In its place, I would suggest, should rise a continental trade union that deals in imports/exports, but NOT an entity that's meant to rule the continent as a whole politically. Besides, what if, heaven forfend, the Russians ended up at the head of such an awful concept? Even Tony Blair would surely be hard pressed to compete with such badness.
But that’s not what the EU is. It’s a political project to create a unified superstate. And the momentum for that is unstoppable. If we don’t want to be part of that, then we have to come out of the EU altogether.
That’s why Boris Johnson, in a move as adroit as it was mischievous, was right to say that the Tories should offer the British people a referendum on coming out of the EU, whether or not the Lisbon treaty has been ratified.
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Europe is not some marginal issue that belongs to a discredited and best forgotten past. It is the meta-issue, the one that underpins all other issues.
The British people know this. That is why 70 per cent want a referendum on the treaty. It’s why no fewer than 40 per cent want to come out of the EU altogether.
Labels: Europe, political corruption
