The country’s Prime Minister is a classic cakeist – berating the EU on the one hand, but not seeking to leave on the other.
Who are you voting for to run the EU Commission? Have you watched the debates and scrutinised their manifestos? Oh, wait.
“In my personal opinion, Olly Robbins should go to the Tower, in which case he should arrive by river.”
Dublin likes to cite the Belfast Agreement, and we certainly all need what it exemplified – that’s to say, a good old-fashioned face-saving fudge.
Cameron’s decision to leave the federalist, centre-right bloc was bewailed by Remainers. How do they feel about its call for a continent-wide ban on veils?
The script for the new relationship with the EU must be written as much by those who valued it as by those who campaigned to leave it.
Meanwhile, shock, anger, sorrow and denial over the democratic decision of the British people to leave the EU has been replaced by a more business-like approach.
The overwhelming evidence, after years of trying, is that the political will and courage simply is not there.
Having led the way in creating an anti-federalist European bloc, our party’s concerns are shared by parties across the continent. This can only help with renegotiation.
EU federalism will be stronger in Britain, as rules are simply imposed on you. And stronger in the rest of Europe – because you’re leaving us.