The panel on Dateline London made themselves look ridiculous earlier today.
None of them understand Euroscepticism.
Agnes Poirier was wittering on about the importance of considering "the long term".
It is exactly the long-term we are considering.
In the long term, with ever greater political union, the British monarchy goes, the British armed forces go, the British currency goes, the British control over population composition goes, British foreign policy goes, British parliamentary democracy goes.
It will all be "pooled" and "shared" and "harmonised" out of all recognition.
Of course, this will be the same for every country in the EU, they will all lose their national institutions.
But there is a significant difference between countries that were victors in the Second World War (the United Kingdom) and countries that were losers and collaborators (every EU country except Sweden).
Germany does not care about its national identity - indeed would prefer to forget about much of it. And so in varying degrees every other EU state would prefer to forget about the middle of the last century. There is no national identity they want to hang on to.
Not so with the United Kingdom.
That is why we are leaving.
None of them understand Euroscepticism.
Agnes Poirier was wittering on about the importance of considering "the long term".
It is exactly the long-term we are considering.
In the long term, with ever greater political union, the British monarchy goes, the British armed forces go, the British currency goes, the British control over population composition goes, British foreign policy goes, British parliamentary democracy goes.
It will all be "pooled" and "shared" and "harmonised" out of all recognition.
Of course, this will be the same for every country in the EU, they will all lose their national institutions.
But there is a significant difference between countries that were victors in the Second World War (the United Kingdom) and countries that were losers and collaborators (every EU country except Sweden).
Germany does not care about its national identity - indeed would prefer to forget about much of it. And so in varying degrees every other EU state would prefer to forget about the middle of the last century. There is no national identity they want to hang on to.
Not so with the United Kingdom.
That is why we are leaving.
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