EU - Who Needs It?

Boris Johnson wrote a very good article in the Telegraph today, which you can read here, in which he warns that despite our naive assumption that life can only get better there is no guarantee it will do so and indeed there is every chance we will slip back into some kind of hell consisting of darkness, squalor and violence and that those of us in the EU will slip back into some democratic dark age. Boris is absolutely right and it has been there for all to see throughout its history and even more so today that the EU abhors democracy. It pays lip service to our democratic rights but when it comes to it, it denies democracy. Witness the way the Italians and the Greeks had to accept technocratic governments to carry out the demands of Brussels. Apparently Sarkozy was the one who was responsible for Papandreou's government replacement with Merkel tamely supporting him. The EU will lie and cheat to achieve its socialist ends and we go along with it. The logic of what Boris is saying is for the euro to be broken up and for the EU to change into a free trade area only but he does not reach that conclusion. He makes no mention of reforming the EU nor the break up of the euro, only of the need to split the euro into two parts with Germany and its cohorts in one and the periphery in the other. A solution to the euro crisis that would have worked well if it had been adopted months ago but is now probably too late.   The democratic deficit is huge with the EU in effect passing Acts of Parliament running into at least 100 every year and many hundreds of regulations that rarely come into the public domain. Apart from still persisting with the financial transaction tax the EU now wants to control our North Sea oil. No doubt the Lib Dems and Labour think this is a thoroughly good idea just as no doubt they think the Common Fisheries Policy is a good idea.  They are very bad ideas but will our government do anything about them? Probably not.