Last night`s vote in the Commons could have been encouraging for Europhobes like me but I think we all know that however much David Cameron might jump up and down in his corner of the EU budget `negotiations,` in the end the remote, self-serving, undemocratic Brussels machine will simply do what it wants to do anyway. So, what to do about it?
Well, I guess like many other of my simplistic solutions, this one might be too much for our elected representatives, but I suggest we might start amending the cheques we send to Brussels each week, month or whatever it is that accommodates the £28,000 we hand over to the EU each and every minute. What we might do is start sending cheques that reflect only what we are prepared to send, such as either reflecting a `modest` cut, a staus quo payment or one which is increased by no more than the 2% rate of inflation. The Brussels machine will kick and scream, threaten us with all kinds of reprisals but what could possibly be worse than what we have now, where we pour £billions into the EU black hole with no control over what they do with it?
After all, their financial incompetence is such that their own auditors have still not signed off the EU accounts for more years than even they can remember. And, as the turmoil in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal continues, as profligacy and unaccountability rules and as democracy takes yet another step backwards, I reflect on the madness of the EU even being seriously considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. That`s one kind of madness.
The other is, of course, the tragedy that is Afghanistan and the growing number of our military personnel being killed by those masquerading as Afghan Police - 11 so far this year and with the total of our losses in this hapless cause now well over 400, it really is time for this madness to end as well.
I suggest we`ve kept calm for too long and the time has come, with these and other madnesses the world throws at us, to say enough is enough.
Well, I guess like many other of my simplistic solutions, this one might be too much for our elected representatives, but I suggest we might start amending the cheques we send to Brussels each week, month or whatever it is that accommodates the £28,000 we hand over to the EU each and every minute. What we might do is start sending cheques that reflect only what we are prepared to send, such as either reflecting a `modest` cut, a staus quo payment or one which is increased by no more than the 2% rate of inflation. The Brussels machine will kick and scream, threaten us with all kinds of reprisals but what could possibly be worse than what we have now, where we pour £billions into the EU black hole with no control over what they do with it?
After all, their financial incompetence is such that their own auditors have still not signed off the EU accounts for more years than even they can remember. And, as the turmoil in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal continues, as profligacy and unaccountability rules and as democracy takes yet another step backwards, I reflect on the madness of the EU even being seriously considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. That`s one kind of madness.
The other is, of course, the tragedy that is Afghanistan and the growing number of our military personnel being killed by those masquerading as Afghan Police - 11 so far this year and with the total of our losses in this hapless cause now well over 400, it really is time for this madness to end as well.
I suggest we`ve kept calm for too long and the time has come, with these and other madnesses the world throws at us, to say enough is enough.
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