tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post3160493795839643690..comments2024-03-29T13:45:23.009+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Blithely, ProfoundlyDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-60811744194631577092016-10-22T15:59:02.470+01:002016-10-22T15:59:02.470+01:00Nigel Farage used to say (perhaps he still would, ...Nigel Farage used to say (perhaps he still would, if anyone on this side of the Atlantic were still listening) that greater poverty would be a price worth paying for withdrawal from the EU. Like an Irish Nationalist, rather than like a Scottish Nationalist.<br /><br />But the main point still stands. No one who matters in the institutions of the EU expects Britain ever to go through with withdrawal.<br /><br />Meanwhile, UKIP takes fewer votes than Larry Sanders in rural Oxfordshire, and it faces eviction from its London headquarters for not paying the rent.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-90820709447911182462016-10-22T11:57:59.595+01:002016-10-22T11:57:59.595+01:00Lord Hill tells the Today programme why Europe is ...Lord Hill tells the Today programme why Europe is prepared to sacrifice jobs dependent on trade with us if we leave: ""People here, I think, forget that for the Europeans the project, it’s an emotional project, it’s a political project and actually it’s quite a romantic project."<br /><br />Those of us who have read Richard North and Christopher Booker's peerless work The Great Deception know all about the "romantic" ideals of a borderless single political federation to end nationalism, that gave birth to the EU.<br /><br />If free trade was the EU's purpose, why does it have its own Parliament, Constitution, Charter, Supreme Court, legal system and (soon) it's own Army?<br /><br />Those are the institutions of a nation state.<br /><br />As Ed West memorably put it "the EU is a nation state for people who don't like nation states."<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com