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Is Cameron Mocking Us?
Posted by Mark 22 Jun 2007
David Cameron has an op-ed piece in the Telegraph today and he uses it to give us his views on Europe. And what views they are. He wants more.
"Think big" he tells them, while helpfully outlining where: competitiveness, climate change, the developing world. In Cameron's world, commuters standing on overcrowded trains are more concerned about their carbon footprint than that the over-priced train is late again, patients dying in MRSA-riddled hospitals are more concerned with third world poverty than with getting to see a consultant. He mentions devolution from Whitehall to Westminster and empowering city governments and local councils. But he doesn't mention less government, which is what we really want. We want to release our economy from interference not just from Europe but from our own government as well. We want less.
"The greatest achievement of the EU," he tells us, "has been its attractiveness to others." Of course other countries flock to join the EU, they get massive hand-outs from the sucker-nations like us who pay massive amounts of money into an unregulated, unaudited EU budget. The EU is not stimulating "reform, democracy and modernisation" as he tells us, it is institutionalising bureaucracy and corruption. It has a vested interest in taking ever greater involvement in every aspect of our public and private lives. It is a power trip and a gravy train with nobody to answer to. They want more.
Finally, Cameron waxes lyrical about the challenges facing Gordon Brown, "to raise Europe's sights and generate a real change for the better. If he does that, he will have our support" he concludes. And here I conclude too. We want out.
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