Bill Cash’s amendment to the Regulatory Reform Bill was supported by 130 Tory MPs, including most of the front bench. This seemingly obscure proposal is a dagger pointed at the heart of Britain’s EU membership: it means withdrawal.
Tory daggers leading to withdrawal? No it doesn’t mean that David, it would mean that the British would make their own laws and the Commission would have to like it or lump it. What are they going to do, throw the third biggest economy out of the EU because we won’t regulate the bends in bananas to EU standards? Come off it.
We have heard all this silly scaremongering before regarding not joining the Euro. Miliband was at that time putting it about that this could spell the end of the world for the City and bring on the collapse of the British economy. His latest dire warnings should be taken with a pinch bucket of salt. In reality Italians today look at the free floating pound jealously whilst hedge funds in Mayfair and St James’ alone control more capital than the Paris and Frankfurt combined Euro-Finanzplatz which was supposed to crush the Square Mile. The mighty Deutsche Bank has humiliatingly even moved most of its trading activities from Frankfurt to London…
Gore is advising Gordon, who is also being advised by Bob Schrum (pictured), the famed Democrat pollster who masterminded Gore’s presidential run. Schrum advised Kerry as well. Gore lost, Kerry lost, and in truth Bob Schrum’s clients have a habit of losing expensively. Schrum was blamed for a lot of the chaos in Kerry’s presidential campaign. In fact in the eight presidential elections he has been involved, he has won precisely none. Great choice, go for it Gordon!
Hat-tip : Andrew Ian Dodge
Those books that drive ’em wild:
Godless: The Church of Liberalism
How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
The suit is reputed to have cost the Labour party some two thousand pounds, nearly as much as Cherie’s monthly hairdressing bill. Is this money well spent? Surely the local elections proved that the chameleon attack line is not working – people like the chameleon and it reinforces the Tory change message. Even Dave’s daughter likes it according to a well crafted piece of Cameronite spin.
Guido feels a little sorry for the man in the suit. Still at least it gives John Prescott something to do and keeps his picture out of the papers.
Apparently there are still a few copies left with Amazon.