We Should All Just Give Up
According to Conservative MEP, Dr Charles Tannock in an article on ConservativeHome, he suggests that we should all just meekly accept British membership of the European Union.
While reading Dr Tannock’s article it occurred to me that somewhere before I had previously read very similar comments. It was only a few hours later that I recalled an interview by Euractiv with Reijo Kemppinen made upon his appointment as the EU Commission’s top representative in Britain. During that interview in 2005 Mr Kemppinen remarked:
I am not a missionary. My job is not to convert or preach to people. I am really seriously not interested in selling or promoting positive stories about the EU. My point is that the time has gone when it was useful to debate whether the EU is a good or a bad thing. We need a policy-led debate.
Curious, is it not, that a Conservative MEP who claims he is against further ceding of our sovereign self-governing democratic power to Brussels just happens to take much the same attitude as the EU Commission’s high representative? Well, not really. The European Union is good for the politicians, not good for the people – which is exactly why our political class will do everything in its power to prevent the European project being questioned.
