Turkish accession to the EU would never secure unanimous assent, although Turkish membership of the NATO means that our Armed Forces, including in Afghanistan, are already on occasion subject to officers ultimately answerable to the Islamist government at Ankara. I do not want to be legislated for by those Islamists or by their only opponents, secular ultra-nationalists on the one hand, and Marxist Kurdish terrorists on the other.
But then, nor do I want to be legislated for by Stalinists and Trotskyists, by neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis, by people who believe the Provisional Army Council to be the sovereign body throughout Ireland, by Eastern Europe’s kleptomaniac nomenklatura, or by neoconservatives such as now run France and Germany. In the European Parliament, and in the Council of Ministers that legislates in secret, I already am.
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