For me it was more about shocking the European parliament institutionalised thinking. It needs reform and they need us as much as we need them, only they seem to have forgotten this. This should be the warning shot that can help a strong tory government push other European leaders to back reform. Just need a strong tory government to get in at the next general election now.
The tories want a referendum.
I cannot unterstand standing up to a bunch of chancers who take our football team to Northampton to put pressure on ACL, and then standing up for a bunch of chancers trying to take our country out of Europe to put pressure on the tories.
Every one is aware of the need for reform of the EU, but destroying it will put us back to a Europe of Nations - tried it for centuries and destroyed millions of lives and lots of cultural inheritence doing it.
I would have thought, and it seems that way, that most people want to work together in Europe to preserve the liberties that we have - which include freedom of movement and protection of minorities. That is worth far more than worrying about an invasion of Rumanians and Bulgarians that will never come.
I know enough Rumanians to know that, as with any group, they have their bad guys anf their good guys. To use them, and other eastern Europeans, as a group to instill fear into the electorate is diabolical.
