Chris

Labour and the Lib Dems could find themselves in a bit of a corner here, especially if things on the continent deteriorate over the next couple of years and create a general impression with the electorate that being shackled to a Euro-corpse is a bad thing. The Tories might actually be able to carry an election on a promise of being the only ones who can "sort out Europe".

Did anyone see/hear the BBC's interview with Guy Verhofstadt this morning? It fairly warmed my heart watching him choke on his croissants with Euro-rage. For anyone who doesn't know, he's the former PM of Belgium and now a MEP and leader of one of the parliament's political groupings. He is also a massive Anglophobe. He insists we can neither change the rules, nor leave the club. On the former, because he's an arch federalist, so loosening the Union is unthinkable. On the latter, I can only assume it has something to do with the UK being a chunky big net contributor to his expenses account the EU budget and therefore his Anglophobia doesn't restrain him from picking our pockets.