Archive for January 14th, 2006
Poor Scottish Brown
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on January 14th, 2006
Britain – a historical relic
Gordon Brown has failed entirely to pull the wool over the public’s eyes.
Brown has attempted to divert attention away from that fact that he represents a Scottish constituency (and so votes on laws that affect none of his constituents) by declaring his ‘Britishness’ and the need for us to support him in order to be patriotic.
Sadly we saw through it. Devolution, and especially the West Lothian question, have scuppered all chances of maintaining a ‘United’ Kingdom. We are now more obviously three-and-a-bit culturally distinct countries. Let’s stop this nonsense and the nonsense English Votes on English Matters policy, embrace our differences and install an English Parliament.
Brown has, incredibly, managed to raise the public awareness of the location of the constituency he represents and has made it even more unlikely he will achieve a majority of English MPs against Cameron. Ironically, the Tory policy (most people will tell you is a fudge) may be tested and shown to not work especially because of Brown’s flapping now! Plus ca change!
Edward McMillan-Scott
Posted by: Gav in Gavin Ayling's blog on January 14th, 2006
No EU Superstate
Edward McMillan-Scott has written an open letter, it appears, to bloggers who support withdrawal from the EPP.
The Conservative Party ought to be the natural party of euroscepticism. The Referendum Party and then UKIP came into existence because of this odd position on the EU.
Arguments about influence, about freedom within the EPP-ED group and about euroscepticism miss the key point. The Conservatives lost votes to UKIP in the EU elections because they support an institution that the majority of English people, rightly, do not support. A recent report shows that those who understand the EU’s institutions etc. are more eurosceptic than those who don’t. Cameron, one must assume, will have an understanding of the EU’s structures and, by implication, will be against this socialist, controlling and non-democratic supranational organisation.
Of course, I am in favour of withdrawal but while that’s not on the cards at the moment. The minimum the Tories should be doing is withdrawing from a political group which considers the EU to be a superstate in the making.
Edward’s post has been added to many blogs including:
- The Road to EU Serfdom
