theres just no hope for some
October 31, 2011 Leave a comment
this is the sort of thing that ruins the cause, leads the europhile left-wing press, cameroons etc. to laugh off the idea of Britain as a sovereign state and claim that anyone who thinks being in europe is not the best option is a ‘fruit-cake’, ‘loony’, ‘racist’ or even ‘homophobic’. John Redwood or dead wood as autonomous mind put it, asks his readers “what powers would you like back?” in his latest post, and then reels off a list as though he is a five year old writing out the Christmas wish list.
Leaving aside the fact that powers cannot be returned, the suggestions he makes on the list itself are pathetic since alone they will not change our relationship with the EU, even if government achieved his whole list.
Redwood forgets that he is an MP of the ‘conservative’ party, that makes up the majority of the coalition who claim to be “governing in the national interest” but which has no intention of returning powers from Brussels to the UK and putting the national interest first. Nor does he realise that his leader is quite happy with the status quo and is dismissive of him and his stated aims, so you wonder why John Redwood takes his frustration out on UKIPers
“who will write in to condemn what we are trying to achieve, I have two simple questions. What power have the UKIP MEPs got back for us? And what progress have the UKIP MEPs made to getting the UK out of the EU in line with their stated policy?”
You do not have to be a UKIP supporter to realise that Britain is better off out of the EU, now I am not a supporter but they simply do not have the capacity to remove Britain from the EU, for one there is not enough of them. Redwood as an MP in the governing coalition could use his own position to influence government policy in-line with his own stated aims, yet his record shows that he has not.
there is just no hope, for some.