EU:cock-up and conspiracy!

Being a believer that all politics is either cock-up or conspiracy, I evinced the view a while back that failure was deliberately programmed into the Euro launch so as to create a political union that would otherwise be totally unacceptable to voters. I also said that what they hadn’t expected was such a devastating outcome as the present, which puts the whole EU concept at risk of complete meltdown. Monnet himself is on record as saying that political union would have to be brought in by stealth, as people otherwise would not accept it. What they have now is both cock-up and conspiracy, no mean achievement.

Was I being paranoid?

This is what none other than a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, no less than Nigel Lawson, had to say only last week

The third group of Europhiles had a different agenda all along. They fully understood the dangers, yet promoted EMU precisely because a crisis could be overcome only by full fiscal and political union. For them, this was the objective. But such union is only practicable if it is the clearly expressed wish of the majority of the peoples of Europe; and that is manifestly not the case. Contempt for democracy has always been one of the most striking and least attractive characteristics of the European movement. It lies at the heart of the present crisis.

Has he been reading my blogs?

But it’s not all bad.

It is nice to think that the well-known British generosity to foreigners is not suffering during the cuts. The overseas aid budget, which rose by a measly 16% last year to £9 billion, is due to rise by 36% to £12.6 billion. So that’s all right, then.

And the Americans are buying our entire fleet of Harrier jets. Well, why not? We don’t have a carrier for them – and neither for the first time in our history do we have a warship based in home waters. Welcome to Planet Loony, al Qaeda!