Saturday 10 December 2011

Thorny truths and sour grapes

Part of the reasons for the ostensibly displayed irate of central Europeans over Britain's "Thanks, but no thanks" attitude for more British contributions to the EU is sheer envy. "How dare they, preserving their own AAA rating and tackle the fiscal problems assumed under Labour on their own - without 'advice' and interference from a Commission in Brussels, while we are forced to goose-step behind the Gallics and the Teutons?"

It's peculiar when people suggest that the Eurozone bloc would solve Britain's fiscal and debt problems, when the eurozone is on the brink of collapse and bankruptcy, and the EU caused many financial problems in the UK in the first place. Under 13 years of Labour, net immigration to Britain was 1.8 million, stretching public finances to the limit.

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