{"id":1362,"date":"2006-10-17T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/17\/things-that-threaten-to-turn-me-anti-eu-part-102-in-an-occasional-series\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T08:55:42","slug":"things-that-threaten-to-turn-me-anti-eu-part-102-in-an-occasional-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/things-that-threaten-to-turn-me-anti-eu-part-102-in-an-occasional-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that threaten to turn me anti-EU (part 102 in an occasional series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/6058864.stm\">winning logo<\/a> for next year&#8217;s celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42208000\/gif\/_42208276_together_1957.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">And in the accompanying story, the killer quote:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The winner was named amid reports that the EU is scaling back celebration plans, fearing public ridicule.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>They really do themselves no favours, do they?<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s before I even attempt to start explaining <a href=\"http:\/\/strange_stuff.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/eu-worse-than-it-seems.html\">the supposed costs of EU membership<\/a> &#8211; which, short version, it is pretty much impossible to do without being able to put a definite figure on the benefits of membership (simple cost-benefit analysis, after all, would mean that if costs of \u00c2\u00a32000 a head lead to benefits of \u00c2\u00a33000 a head, we&#8217;re doing pretty well). Sadly, it is entirely impossible to put a firm financial figure on the benefits of EU membership, because so many aspects of the claimed benefits are entirely unknowable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ho hum. Back to the grindstone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winning logo for next year&#8217;s celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome: And in the accompanying story, the killer quote: &#8220;The winner was named amid reports that the EU is scaling back celebration plans, fearing public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/things-that-threaten-to-turn-me-anti-eu-part-102-in-an-occasional-series\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}