December 11, 2015
by Nosemonkey
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Yesterday I returned from work to find an anti-EU leaflet on the doorstep. So you can imagine my surprise to find it was covered in an array of spurious bullshit. Let’s take a look, “point” by “point”: 1) EU cost. … Continue reading
April 14, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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An email comes in – I thought I may as well turn the response into a post: “I’m a journalism student working on an article about British press coverage of the EU. I’m particularly interested in the spiral of scant … Continue reading
January 24, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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I mean yes, we know that in this era of coalitions and compromise, manifesto pledges are not what they once were. But it’s often in the details that you can get a proper grasp of what a party truly stands … Continue reading
January 20, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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No matter your political persuasion, this is not as easy a decision as you may think. I supposedly know my stuff on this, and I haven’t decided yet. First things first – what are we voting for? To answer this … Continue reading
January 9, 2014
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on Britain: Hiding under a duvet of doubt and debt
Genuinely superb column by Mary Riddell in the Telegraph today. Read in full. Considering the Telegraph’s decades of hostility to the EU (it’s the paper that employs the hard anti-EU Tory Tea Partier Dan Hannan, after all, and owners the … Continue reading
July 14, 2012
by Nosemonkey
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So, supposedly in a bid to allow any future in-out referendum on UK membership of the EU to be based on facts rather than ideology (fat chance), Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced an “audit” of the influence of EU … Continue reading
June 12, 2012
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on An American view of Europe the UK would be sensible to note
Once again, no one knows what’s going to happen – yet everyone knows it’s going to be bad. This from The Atlantic makes some good points amidst the “eurogeddon” worst-case scenario act – but this time from an American perspective, … Continue reading
June 8, 2012
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on Cameron’s confusing approach to the eurocrisis
Good points raised by the eurosceptic organisation Open Europe’s blog today about the British government’s rather bizarre, contradictory attitude(s?) towards the eurocrisis: “A German-led superstate still seems years off – if it ever will be agreed (no matter how much … Continue reading
June 6, 2012
by Nosemonkey
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Hell, this would have been an unpopular view at most stages in the last decade and a half, even when it looked like the eurozone was doing well. So it’s a brave British politician indeed to make the argument that … Continue reading
June 2, 2012
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on Some ideas for improving Britain’s relations with Europe
The Economist’s Political Editor David Rennie – erstwhile Charlemagne, and before that the Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent – is the single most consistently interesting and insightful commentator on EU affairs in the British Media. And other media, for that matter.
So you can imagine my geeky joy at discovering he’s written a 20,000 word analysis of the Anglo-European relationship just in time for a long Bank Holiday weekend. He provides an introduction/summary here – if you follow this blog you really should go read. Eurogeek heaven.
May 27, 2012
by Nosemonkey
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When Declan Ganley first started to appear on the scene with his Libertas party/pressure group a few years back – not to be confused with UKIP defector Robert Kilroy-Silk’s Veritas party – it was all too easy to dismiss it … Continue reading
May 27, 2011
by Nosemonkey
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“Let’s leave the EU and join the EEA or EFTA – Norway and Switzerland are doing fine without EU membership!” It’s a perennial argument of a surprisingly large number of anti-EU types, and I’ve been meaning to do a proper … Continue reading
May 25, 2011
by Nosemonkey
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Alerted by a rather simplistic, often factually inaccurate article over on Liberal Conspiracy, I’ve ended up checking out the new British campaign for a referendum on continued British membership of the EU, The People’s Pledge. More to the point, I’ve … Continue reading
February 1, 2011
by Nosemonkey
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Just found an interesting response to my UK-EU trade post from a couple of months back, from what is a new blog to me, Brittopic. It’s worth reading in full to see a few objections and some issues raised – … Continue reading