The Next 3 Years

My elder brother, who has never read a blog in his life nor even sent an email nor opened a computer - he is simply not wired up to do so, asked me today what I saw becoming the most controversial political issues over the next three years. Even having had time to reflect further I still believe that the answer I gave over lunch is the correct one. The answer I gave was that there would be two issues (a) the EU and whether we should change to become at most a Swiss like affiliate and (b) Global Warming and whether we should be spending the huge sums of money that we are in line to pay over the next few years. Both issues will come to the forefront of the political scene at roughly the same time and will lead to huge and passionate rows that will transcend normal political associations and split families and friends. One of the casualties will I hope be Peter Luff of the European Movement who tried to defend the indefensible last night on Jeff Randall Live - he could only bluster and was quite unable to put forward a single coherent reason as to why the EU budget should not be reduced. Mats Person of Open Europe was more than able to cope with the Luff hype and to demonstrate the size of fraud in the EU, which Luff had belittled, is truly significant. On my return home I read various blogs and to my surprise discovered that the Political Betting blog (www2.politicalbetting.com/) had posted that the EU has in effect a non-issue with the electorate. We'll have to see whose right. What do you think?