Monday 14 January 2013

PM And The EU: Bossiness

David Cameron has said 'ooh aren't those EU types bossy? That will have to stop. I'll renegotiate it', or something like that. It is therefore going to come as a surprise to Mr. Cameron when the EU points out that, since we handed sovereignty to them in 1973, they re in charge. Not so much bossy but rather 'the boss', then.

Here are some suggestions for Mr. Cameron though. If you don't like Britain being bossed around by Brussels why not declare the United Kingdom to be an independent country. It could work. Canada, Australia, America they all have given it a go and so far so good.

I know you want to be a part of 'Europe' David, really I do. (I was going to insert reasons why here, but there just aren't any so I'll call it empathy). And here is how I think we could solve this, for you, intractable problem. You know all those things we have to do, because Brussels says so/ They are because of things called 'treaties' that allow them.

As an independent country we could still have treaties David. No, you can. Goes on all the time. And, as an independent country you won't have all those other EU countries pitching in to influence you. You can do what you want. (Yes, you will still get Obama phoning up with his latest crazy idea and can he get discount at Harrods - just use the opportunity for practice, in case someone with real ideas phones up).

What you could also do is start exporting ideas. As an independent country, we could suggest things that might make things better in the EU. Target making the lives of the ordinary people better, it is easy to do in the EU and will get lots of response. You could suggest a system called 'voting' to elect political leaders (the Greeks will like that one). You could perhaps see what they think of the people owning the law and politicians not being above it (ah yes, that's the reason for liking the EU).

There is a reason from Marlborough, through Wellington to Churchill that Britain has helped Europe get over its little upsets and has herself never had a revolution and it isn't because we are not enough like our Continental neighbours. I mean if we really wanted the Code Napoleon (on which much of EU law is based) what was all that stuff about in 1815? Why did we believe in democracy then and not now? Is it because Tony Blair made Britain a 'modern' country?



Is it possible that Cameron cannot bring himself to promote an independent Britain because that might make the Conservatives the British Independence Party, or the United Kingdom National Party? Surely not, he is a serious politician. (I wrote that without laughing).




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