Pactio Olisipio censenda est

Take a few minutes to digest this short no-punches-pulled summary / expose of the EU by the excellent and gallant (he now finishes every speech in the EU chamber with the words "Pactio Olisipio censenda est" — Latin for "The Lisbon Treaty must be put to the vote") Dan Hannan.

Amongst other realities which he brings home, is the comparison with Norway, a country which has prospered greatly on the back of its arm's length relationship with the EU. The sooner Britain takes a similar approach the better.

The alternative is the further erosion of British tradition, civil liberties (already under threat by over-zealous illiberals within our own UK parliament) and plain old common-sense (which is, increasingly un-common these days, of course), replaced by political-correctness, centralist-federalist-socialist thinking and plain disregard for democracy...yet in the name of democracy.

What a farce. It would funny if it wasn't so tragic.

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