Wednesday 8 July 2015

The Lanchester Review: It's Up To Europe's Leaders Now

Bryan Gould has been right from the beginning of all of this, when certain other people were not only wrong, but wrong around the Cabinet table.
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  1. Anonymous8 July 2015 at 11:17

    The eccentrics on both sides were right from the beginning, (while the party leaderships were wrong). Alan Clark, Enoch Powell, Tony Benn and Michael Foot were portrayed as nutters in that famous Sun cartoon in 1975.

    Though I have to add I despise Tony Benn and Foot's anti-monarchy views, and their desire to abolish the House of Lords (which Labour unfortunately achieved in the end) and nor do I agree with them that the central problem with the EU is that it's undemocratic.

    The central problem is that Britain has a Constitution, legal system , Parliamentary system and a history of unbroken sovereignty and stable borders that is utterly different from anywhere else in Europe-so merging with the Continent can only mean abolishing everything good and unique about Britain.

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    1. David Lindsay8 July 2015 at 18:49

      That is basically fantasy, but if it keeps people on-side, then so be it.

      Stable borders? Of the United Kingdom? The present ones are not yet 100 years old, and were barely 60 when we went in.

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