Europe is trembling, the Euro is crumbling and the economic crisis is getting worse by the minute. So, what does the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso propose to do about it? He proposes greater integration and a further surrender of individual State’s powers to the European monolith. He feels that if the European Union had even greater power it could get us all through the worst recession in living memory. That’s always the stock answer of these European bureaucrats, isn’t it? Let’s throw more money at Europe, let’s give our unelected rulers more power and all will be well. Except it won’t.
Getting closer to Europe and surrendering further State power is akin to being encouraged to climb aboard a sinking ship rather than the opposite which, as the departing rats will tell you, makes no sense at all. But common sense is in short supply in Europe. I just hope our government stands firm and resists Barroso’s exhortations because if not we will be in considerably deeper trouble than we’re in already and the problems faced by Greece and the other spongers in the lower levels of the European Union will become ours too.

Incidentally, remember when, a few years back, proposals for the UK to join the Euro was part of a national debate and the newspapers and our television screens were dominated by vociferous and “enlightened” liberals telling us that we had to join. We had no choice, they whined, and anybody who disagreed was a “reactionary” or a “little Englander? Well, where are you people now? You’ve gone very quiet haven’t you? Do you have any comment to make on the Euro crisis?  Have you got anything at all to say? Thought not.