Telegraph Blogs – James Delingpole: Enough eloquent excuses, Dave: the only place for a Conservative Britain in Europe is out

[T]he European Constitution has stolen British sovereignty; it will make us poorer, more highly regulated, less democratically accountable and less free. You cannot run an effective Conservative government within a Socialist Europe. You can’t. It is simply not possible.

Mark Steyn’s favourite line lately is

that governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture — one in which elections are always fought on the Left’s issues and on the Left’s terms, and in which “conservative” parties no longer talk about small government and individual liberty.

Well, Europe’s already reached that point and yet there’s still more of that road to travel. Joy! Maybe we should all embrace our inner paranoiac and start mumbling about a North American Union?

Date: Nov 4th, 2009 · Comments RSS · Tags: Geography and Foreign Affairs