David William Donald Cameron.
Statesman. Hero. Genius.
The Prime Minister who has just begun the process of righting our relationship with Europe, by doing no more than being honest with his European colleagues, his party, his coalition partners and most importantly with us.
And the real brilliance of it is that he has ended, once and for all, any possibility of our being dragged into ill-thought-out European schemes which we don't want, by getting them to decide to leave us. We are still in the EU and have it more or less where we want it; the single-currency mob are going to have to set up their ill-advised mechanisms outside it.
As for being "isolated"? I like Terry Smith's phrase: "if we are isolated, we might be as isolated as somebody who refused to join the Titanic just before it sailed."
And then to make things even better, up pops some Nat MEP (Alyn Smith) saying: "Give it six months and I think you will find the UK sinking a lot faster than the eurozone is. The eurozone is getting its act together. "
Cue uproarious belly-laughter. This guy is beyond lampoon and parody. What a contender, what a prat. A perfect example of the hate-blinded stupidity of the SNP.
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So who's a separatist now Smee?
Not me - I'm a (mild) Eurosceptic, not a Europhobe. "In Europe, not run by Europe" suits me fine.
So what's the difference between in Europe, not run by Brussels and in the Commonwealth, not run by London?
Oh dear Smee, as usual your size sixteens have walked straight into a nat bear trap.
Hardly.
"So what's the difference between in Europe, not run by Brussels and in the Commonwealth, not run by London?"
Just about everything.
The EU is a political and economic body which enables important political and economic benefits for its members, e.g. the single market and negotiating at the WTO as a bloc.
The Commonwealth, laudable though it is, is basically a cultural / social club.
Commonwealth members are under no obligation to bail out each other's banks, or subsidise the development of renewable energy sources (of somewhat questionable use, but never mind).
Members of the EU - and the UK - are.
Conan's question was the headline for today's editorial in the Herald. Interesting.
I presume you have no objection in principle of Salmond's alternate strategy of renegotiating Scotland's membership of the UK with the view to repatriating powers?
I think the polls show that Scotland wants to be part of the UK - but not run mainly by the UK government.
Never mind the total Crown Dependency optouts even though they are British by nationality and British geographically. British but not part of Britain.
Since much of the EU to me seems modeled on the framework Bismark gave to the North German Confederation and the Hohenzollen Reich and subsequent German entities - bar the Nazis and the DDR. Particularly the Council of Ministers which with its QMV resembles the German Bundesrat.
Now for the exercise. Imagine the UK had an upper house like the Bundesrat where the autonomous governments collectively made up the upper house as the Bavarian government, the Saxony government etc.
So you have the Eck, Marty and Peter and Carwyn all having a say over UK tax policy. Chuck in some theoretical English regional governments. maybe an English government representatives as well.
Now the Bundesrat can veto the Federal budget if it does not agree with the conditions of VAT, Corporation Tax or Income Tax cos the federal and state governments share these revenues.
Then imagine in a UK Bundesrat Salmond using his block vote to block the UK budget cos it has not met his demands/has elements which he declares threaten the viability of the important Scotch Whisky Industry.
Would you be cheering him from the sidelines or questioning why as you probably see him - a jumped up provincial politician who should not be bossing the functions of the Imperial British government about?
By the way do you think Gib should have been part of the Eurozone before all this happened. Just wondering as obviously the Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands both officially use the Greenback rather than use the East Caribean Dollar or their own currencies or Sterling - like the Falklands. Wonder if they have representation on the Federal Reserve------------
Smee you have had a name check in the Guardian for thid blog. Now tell the truth - was it you?
BTW Cameron is an A1 Ahole.
This blog, even.
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