So far, perhaps out of deference to his coalition partners,and despite his pledge to prevent further erosions of British sovereignty, [David Cameron] has permitted Brussels to take control of regulation of the City: help itself to hundreds of millions of pounds to finance an increase in the EU budget and risked some tens of billions more by participating in the EU bailout fund. Unless the Prime Minister rediscovers his inner Eurosceptic, Britain will have to wait for the collapse of the eurozone to recover some of its lost sovereignty. - Irwin Steltzer, The Spectator, 20 November 2010
Prodicus is a Tory and, for now, despite recent outrages, remains a member of the Conservative Party. These are not synonymous, Mr Cameron.
Coalition with the Liberal Democrats has made many urgently necessary actions easier, politically, for a Conservative Party in government to accomplish. David Cameron played a political blinder in engineering it, to make a virtue out of necessity.
The Liberal Democrat Party, however, despite Sir John Major's dream, has probably signed its own death warrant in exchange for the mess of potage which some of its senior members are currently enjoying.
At the next election, few voters will 'agree with Nick', even assuming Nick himself is around to plead with them. That political phenomenon, a species of hysteria, was singular and has passed. It may be that some of the more Liberal LibDem members of the Coalition Cabinet may find themselves marooned on an island of liberal-conservatism as the LibDem tide goes out, and decide to make the best of it, leaving their loonier, leftier confreres, epitomised by the increasingly risible Hughes-ites, to consider their own position and perhaps (re-) join the Labour Party.
The world is changing, and quickly. Thanks to aggressive Islamism, the western world - and this may be something of a tautology - is becoming increasingly conscious of its occidental identity. Despite the screams of the hard-left few and their appeal to the innocent and inexperienced, the world has rejected socialism and is in the process of rejecting multiculturalism: in a word, turning Right. In this very moment, the European Union is being rocked to its foundations by the inherent flaws in its fatuous currency experiment, now seen by the continent's most important and powerful electorates to be harming the very people who were told it would benefit them. Euro-topia is about to be torn apart by angry Northern Europeans who are considering throwing their lying and deluded political leaders out.
To leave what, exactly, behind, in the political wreckage?
The United Kingdom is shackled to this catastrophe.
The senior partner in our coalition government, the Conservative Party, is beholden to the hard line better-off-out majority in its own party for its electoral success, such as it was. (The grass roots got the vote out, despite themselves.) The Conservative Party in government owes a duty to the entire country in which there is a majority for leaving the European Union, especially now, before the blinkered and corrupt oligarchy which runs the EU and which represents no-one but itself, drags us into the economic (and political) hell it has already ensured for the peoples of Southern Europe and of Ireland, in which crime, of course, the political elites in those benighted places are fully culpable and complicit.
The junior partner in the coalition wants even closer (and some of its leaders total) integration of the United Kingdom into EU-hell, along the lines recently outlined by the obviously desperate President Rompuy who urges the actual abolition of Europe's nations. Well, at least it's clear where we stand with him, even as we note his astounding stupidity and blindness to the origins of the storm around him. Still, if all politicians were as frank, we would not be where we are.
And so to the United Kingdom's coalition government, in the short-medium term a practical necessity out of which is coming some good. In the medium-longer term, it is doomed by the poison which now attaches to the name of Clegg in the minds of the more hysterical electors who put him where he is today and who now wish to string him up for being a realist and a grown-up having purported to be Che Guevara-lite in a nice tie.
At the next election, we shall return to the three party system, with either the Conservative or Labour Party winning a majority.
In the long term, with the flawed dream of European economic and political union being seen by the peoples of Europe to be inimical to both their well-being and their widely disparate cultural integrities, any government, of any party, in any country, which insists on the priority of the failed Euro-experiment against the will of and to the great harm of its people, will fall.
Never mind David Cameron's Sir John's dream of extended coalition. The majority (sovereignty-minded and anti-socialist) grown-ups among the electorate won't have it, as long as the Liberal Democrats refuse to recant on their Euro-dogma.
Which they won't, unless the EU-sky falls in, for when did the Liberal Democrats (other than to grab at Cameron's coat-tails this time round) ever face up to reality? There was no need for them to do so because they were never going to have to deal with it in office. Ah, how quickly the unthinkable can happen. After 2015, the LibDems will return to their luxurious former position and be able to resume wagging their fingers at us all from their look-out up there on the moral high ground. No-one will hear them, though, because we will all be down here in the real world, scratching a living out of the ruins of Europe's 'economic and political union'.
At least, that's the sunnier scenario. A darker vision is of a scorched continent dotted with lampposts from which dangle the charred remains of Europe's former 'elite', while howls of impotent rage and the moans, in several tongues, of the ruined and the desperate disturb our sleepless nights.
Can we leave yet?
