Interesting article by Steve Richards about the triumph (as he puts it) of Tory Euroscepticism: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/old-tory-scepticism-has-won-yet-europe-still-ravages-the-party-8617937.html
However he overlooks that fact that Conservatives (many of them, but not of course all) urged expansion of the EU as a covert way of destroying through imperial over-reach the hated organisation.
And the strategy may yet prove fatal to the power bloc (the killer blow would be admission of Turkey, but even without the anatolian option the old Franco-German axis has gone - hopefully for good).
It is not enough for the United Kingdom to be free of the Euro-hydra as we would still be menaced by the formation of a continental super-state.
British policy over the next twenty to thirty years must be (in part) to leave Europe, divide Europe and keep the balance of power in Europe (not necessarily in that order).
However he overlooks that fact that Conservatives (many of them, but not of course all) urged expansion of the EU as a covert way of destroying through imperial over-reach the hated organisation.
And the strategy may yet prove fatal to the power bloc (the killer blow would be admission of Turkey, but even without the anatolian option the old Franco-German axis has gone - hopefully for good).
It is not enough for the United Kingdom to be free of the Euro-hydra as we would still be menaced by the formation of a continental super-state.
British policy over the next twenty to thirty years must be (in part) to leave Europe, divide Europe and keep the balance of power in Europe (not necessarily in that order).
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