WHAT A CROCK, MONSIEUR BARNIER
Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 09:59AM 
Yesterday, I reported the grim news that the French had secured a vital new EU post of Internal Market Commissioner.
As you know. Labour had claimed that they had seen off French ambitions. Just more lies from Brown and co.
But WHO is Mr Barnier and what does he believe that should cause us GREAT anxiety.
Mr Barnier is expected to push hard to give Brussels the power to regulate financial institutions here instead of the British authorities.
He helped draw up the original European constitution and has called for an end to Britain’s EU budget rebate.
The new commissioner has also repeatedly made statements attacking ‘too much free-market liberalism’ and called for ‘intervention’.
French government officials are on record as saying they want Paris to become ‘a rival’ to London, which is Europe’s dominant financial market and vital for the UK economy.
City insiders fear tighter regulations could drive British-based finance firms offshore or push them to list on the New York stock market instead.
Apart from THAT, why he's a swell guy. This appointment places an EU dagger at the throat of the UK's vital financial independence. It is almost impossible to exaggerate the disaster that the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty represents for the United Kingsdom and the consequences of what is now being unveiled by the EU elite will resonate for decades to come.
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French government officials are on record as saying they want Paris to become ‘a rival’ to London, which is Europe’s dominant financial market and vital for the UK economy.
Indeed, which means destroying London instead of liberating French markets. Berlin and Frankfurt would be happy to see it too.
What would McMugabe care either? He's out of a job soon and would chuckle at a Tory government denied the taxes he was happy to plunder from the City.