LOOSEN THE TIES THAT BIND...
Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 08:42PM 
Pleased to read that almost two-thirds of voters want a significant loosening of Britain's ties with the European Union including an end to the supremacy of the European Court of Justice, a new opinion poll reveals.
"Overall, 16 per cent of voters want Britain simply to withdraw from the EU, while 48 per cent would like to see a much looser relationship, with the government taking back powers from Brussels and ending the supremacy of the European Court of Justice over British law. Added together this makes 64 per cent in favour of weakening Britain's ties with the EU, compared with just 22 per cent in favour of keeping the UK's current full membership including the Lisbon Treaty, which was passed by parliament without a referendum. Asked if they favoured joining the euro, in the wake of the slump in the value of the pound which at one stage brought it close to parity with the single European Currency, 64 per cent said No, with 24 per cent backing euro membership, a finding broadly in line with a BBC opinion poll earlier this month."
It's the 22-24% that favour the entry of the UK into the Eurozone and the retention of the Brussels legal tyranny that fascinate me! Who are they, exactly? What is the demographic? We can be sure that they are politically on the hard-left. I would like to understand why, economically, they think we should junk the Pound in favour of the Euro. I would also like to hear why they think the supremacy of Euro-law is a good idea! Perhaps they are nihilistic selfl-loathers. Perhaps they may represent our wonderful multicultural fringe, shoe-throwers included. Either way, Brits seek to place significant blue water between our island nation and Euroland.
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but comrad you have given up your freedom to the beurocrats
It's the 22-24% that favour the entry of the UK into the Eurozone and the retention of the Brussels legal tyranny that fascinate me!
Hmmm ... me too. They're alot of necks to be stretched. Do we have that much hemp in stock?
Still, I'm sure the Left will back up their rhetoric and call for our independence - it's what we want afterall.
Peter Shore and
the multimillionaire Viscount StansgateTony Benn have managed it. It can't be that difficult, it is only what our Constitution demands."they are politically on the hard-left. "
I think that is open to much discussion, given that it was the Tories who were initially so keen on a close liaison with Europe. That they have not made much comment lately, one way or the other, does not give any confidence that they would act any differently from Labour.
I see the matter more as a schism between the politicians, of all shades, on the one hand, and the electorate on the other, rather than a straightforward split on party lines.
Hence the lack of a legimate public vote on entry, they know full well that they would get a resounding 'no' vote, so would rather enter by stealth.
As Mandelson, Kinnock, Blair, Soames, not forgetting Heath, and many others have shown there is just too much 'gravy on that train' for them to ignore.
Perhaps they are looking at 'Europe' much as the survivors of the Titanic looked at all those lifeboats. Having steered one ship onto the rocks they see the EU as the only route for them to take for their personal - not the UK's, survival.
As for those that aren't politicians but who also see profit in EU membership, look no further than the lawyers who so happily embrace all that 'human rights' nonsense, and then the little jobsworths in local government, whose particular sandpit is the arena of Health and Safety. Has there ever been such a scam played on the public? - and the lawyers love that one as well...! There are all those employed by the various quangos, all keen little eurocrats, to a man...
Then, of course, we have those in the business community, who think they can better survive in the larger community, - oh yes! - that's why so much of our business infrastructure is now owned by foreign companies.
Most, but not all, British business men really are, what might be described as 'internationally incompetent', - rather like our politicians, if you were to ask me!
Perhaps if it was seen to be based on a more democratic philosophy it might have had more support,
Let the cry resound! wherever that blue and gold star spangled banner is raised, - 'Every man for himself!'
Ernest,
You have a point, plenty of traitors in the blue corner.
The EU is merely the local component of the juggernaut called globalisation, which seeks the abolition of all impediments to capitalist enterprise. That used to mean just no tarriffs, but now it demands unrestricted flows of capital and labour, which requires the demise of the nation state. Eventually it will require a single world currency and a single world governmemt. In other words, a world fit for multi-national corporations to thrive in.
The fools who support this project may think they are promoting world peace and harmony. But it will come unstuck (maybe it has done already) and if things go badly wrong it will trigger WW3 and nuclear catastrophe.
People do not realise that where the EUSSR is concerned there can be no "loosening of the relationship" nor can there be an end to the supremacy of the Euro Court of Justice. you either take all of it or you get out of it (pleeeeze)!
Exactly so, Peter. Corporations recognise no country, no peoples and no nations. Those who work within corporations typified by the BBC and certain large oil companies which are supposedly 'British' have no loyalty to any country. But they are being rumbled:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1111151/The-great-white-backlash-Working-class-turns-Labour-immigration-housing.html#comments
Stop calling it the EUSSR. It isn't Socialist at heart, it is deeply *Corporatist* at its economic heart - squeezing out the smaller companies with useless legislation that only those giant corporations can afford to meet the costs of.
But you are right of course. The whole nonsense about 'taking some powers back' is deeply, deeply dishonest - it's a false premise because there is simply no mechanism for it to happen. The fact that it is the Tories dishonest position too says it all about those traitors in the blue corner as well.