At last some "Red Lines' on EU renegotiations

At last! (Link)

OK it's Boris, but nonetheless at last someone whose political career might just conceivably be ahead of him is talking about the UK's membership of the EU and what we would need to renegotiate if we were to remain committed to being 'in'.

Actually it's not what we'd need to renegotiate, but what we'd need to get back from Brussels in terms of powers, for us to remain in favour of the European project. That is a game-changer, potentially.

And I cannot believe that Dave didn't know about what Boris was going to say. It's been trailed for weeks and comes just a couple of days after Boris has thrown his hat back into the ring as a Tory candidate. I may want this to be true and am therefore reading more into it than I should, but it seems to me, on the face of it, that the Tories might just be coming round to thinking about life outside of the EU.

I have blogged endlessly (you might think - if so, sorry) about our need to get out of this anti-democratic, controlling, (national) socialist, unaccountable organisation of total idiots whose actions are killing opportunity and democracy in Europe for 'ordinary' people. I am of the firm belief that this is the biggest issue we face today:  Forget about UK party politics, they will be irrelevant in a few short years if we stay in because most of the laws by which we live will be decided in Brussels.

So Boris' statement is manna from heaven for me.

You see the thing is that Dave has 'chuntered' about the EU, talking about 'issues' and 'problems' but he is pro-EU to his core - or at least he has been until now. But if we really wanted to change the EU we could. We are the EU's biggest customer. Bigger than the US. We are the second or third (depending on when you measure it) biggest net contributor to the EU. Without us the EU almost certainly fails and quite quickly. So we are in a very strong position despite the sneering muppets that we regularly see in the European Parliament denouncing UK scepticism.

We could, if we wanted to, light a major fire under these idiots and bring them to heel, but we don't, often because Dave has signed up to Common Purpose (google it) and all that. But this changes everything imo.

Boris is essentially setting out the terms under which we will remain in the EU. The 'Red Lines' of my title. If they don't accept this position then we're out.

And if that is the case, then we're out. Why? One singular reason. The French will never accept reform of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) which enables it to continue its feudal subsistence farming system. It simply cannot afford to do so. It's an economic basket case as it is.

If this sticks, if what Boris is saying (with Dave's tacit approval) this is a real game-changer.

God I hope so, it's been a very long time coming.

Thanks for reading.