Enjoying a glass of Scotch and listening to Bach so zero interested response here
Daniel Hannan FTW.
Yep you know it.
You get the general idea. Despite his occasional ill-advised comments a lot of what he says makes sense because it is the simplest solution to problems. Why tax people in order to give them money back when you can just not tax them, why centralise control inefficiently and at a distance when there are local legislatures that know the areas better and are not being used, why take directives from Brussels which are blanket applied to the whole of Europe. Power should be as close as possible to those it affects, those it affects should have control over those who make these decision in terms of votes of no confidence and US style primaries, this gives better accountability, more local empowerment and a better democracy.