EU MEMBERSHIP : BATTLE IS JOINED.

As pressure mounts for a referendum on the UK's continued membership of the socialist cabal that is the European Union, the big guns are beginning to make their appearance.

 

As well as the CBI recently expressing its opinion that, effectively, the UK had to remain within this egregious organisation at any cost, we now have some non-entity in President Obama's US administration saying something similar, and another non-entity at home, someone called Nick Clegg, claiming that the UK's 'value' to the US lies in its membership of the EU.

 

The CBI, the organisation for chief executives of major companies, has a long history of pontificating an all manor of subjects, always from its own narrow point of view and never from the point of view of the people of the country. There can be no doubt that had they had their way, the UK would now be using the Euro, with all the issues that would have brought us; for them to now being bleating about the necessity of us remaining in the EU tells me that we'll probably be far better off getting out.

 

What our membership of the EU has to do with the US escapes me but, of course, Obama and his acolytes are just another bunch of socialists who would rather see the UK weakened by being tied to a vast raft of anti-competitive rules and regulations than being free to provide genuine competition in the international marketplace. From its foundation, the US has never done anything that was not simply in its own interests and the recent comments about the UK's EU membership are clearly from the same stable. Again, the fact that these comments have been made makes me want to get out.

 

Clegg we all know to be an arch-europhile but for him to use the UK's supposed 'value' to the US as part of his argument for our continued membership of this crazy club really does take the biscuit. Surely, the only reason for the UK to remain in the EU is if membership is in the best interests of the country and its citizens, not in the best interests of another foreign power. Presumably Clegg believes that the US sees the UK as a useful buffer, or possibly even an advocate for it, between itself and continental Europe, but is this of any direct significance to us ?

 

No doubt there will be an increasing amount of rhetoric about the EU over the next couple of years but little of it will be honest and even-handed. The europhiles will try to terrify us with tales about the horrors that will unfold should we come out while the europhobes will do exactly the same from the other side of the argument. How people will really be able to make an informed judgement if we actually do have a referendum on the matter has yet to be discovered.