Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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Here we go again. Back to the Major years, with the Tories governing from a party split on the critical strategic issue of the day. We now have fifty backbench Tories parading their self righteous drivel about parliamentary sovereignty set to cause just the same mayhem as the gang of nonentities who all but brought Major to his knees. Cameron is right to announce that ministers who do not back him will be fired.

This blog is pro EU and pro Britain being a member. We applaud the free movement of people and capital, the European Parliament, the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court and the fact that our undemocratic parliament, with only one House elected and that by a grossly unfair and unrepresentative voting system, is not sovereign over everything. We have no written constitution, such constitution as we have is under the control of the government when every other nation in Europe has a written constitution under the control of the people, and the citizens of Great Britain, who are also citizens of the EU, sorely need the protection of their rights and liberties which membership of the EU brings them.

Of course the EU has its faults and of many of its policies, including those towards Russia, this blog is opposed. We are strongly critical too of the ridiculous posture of the euro countries towards  bankrupt Greece. But we can influence events as a member and if we could stop talking about all our niggles and how we might leave, we would find that many would in turn listen. And if those niggles just now and again get the better of us emotionally, just stop to recall that the anniversaries of both WW1 and WW2 now being remembered, are just the chain of events which the political dream of the EU was structured  to prevent occurring ever again.

Labour and the Lib Dems need to stop navel gazing and get their acts together, find new leaders (they should have kept the old ones for the moment, neither should have resigned) and prepare for battle. The Tory party is set fair on a course to its own destruction. It has already destroyed Cameron’s authority which came from his victory. Instead of continuing to see him as a prime minister with a mandate, EU leaders now see a man with problems in his party which he is trying to appease.