Daniel Hannan writes:We island people, says Nicolas Sarkozy, can't understand the subtleties of European integration. He's right. I am blogging from the most isolated part of my constituency, the Isle of Wight. Sure enough, local people are quite baffled by what is being agreed in the EU.
They don't understand why Brussels is treating a debt crisis with more debt.
They don't understand how Greece is helped by having more loans thrust upon it.
They don't understand why the interests of Europe's peoples are being sacrificed for the sake of keeping the euro together.
They don't understand why the EU is accelerating all the policies which created the crisis in the first place.
And they certainly don't understand why Britain, having kept the pound, is being sent the bill.
They understand one thing, though. They know in their bones what Shakespeare meant when he wrote of the Channel serving us 'in the office of a wall, or as a moat defensive to a house, against the envy of less happier lands'. They look out across its sparkling waters, and shake their heads ruefully at the reasoning that has led our rulers to make the eurozone's problems ours.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100115758/nicolas-sarkozy-is-right-we-island-people-dont-get-the-eu-at-all/
