The Political Battlefield

Britain has an immensely rich history. It is a history of kings and queens, of good men and bad, of desperate last stands and brutal wars; of literary genius and great thinkers, of scientists, engineers and statesman – men and women who by their endurance and fortitude built a civilisation, which, by no means perfect, was founded on the great tenets of liberty. I see the European Union much as Gaitskell did; as ‘the end of a thousand years of history.’ Like it or not, the EU does have for its goal ‘ever closer union.’ All the trappings that come with it – bureaucratic legislation, loss of border control, free movement, common agricultural and fishing policies, the European Arrest Warrant, economic and monetary union – signal the dissolution of national validity. Perhaps I wouldn’t be worried about this transfer of power if the EU was remotely democratic.