"Our Time In The EU was a calamity for Britain"
Great article in th DT, today, in which an analysis suggests that De Gaulle was right when he said that the UK should never have got into the EU.
Th article suggests tha "our time in the EU was a calamity for Britain, but a Disaster for the EU".
Allister Heath in :-
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...iftigniter-rhr
What a surprise.
For those who cannot access the page, here is a part of it:-
"We stood apart, a free-trading, Atlanticist and global island with a very different conception of Europe’s future. We were never going to fit into the Jean Monnet model of EU state-building or even his own more nation-centric version, De Gaulle argued when he gloriously vetoed our application twice during the Sixties. And so it turned out. Our approach was exactly what Brussels was seeking to stamp out.
Why didn’t we listen? Why did we waste 47 frustrating years as ambivalent members? To future generations, the opportunity cost will look staggering. If anything, Le Général underestimated how hard it would be for the UK to become European: he thought we would have to undergo a fundamental transformation of our economics and politics. He assumed we would never try; but in fact our political classes, declinists desperate for a post-imperial outlet, did their best, trashing our political system and the democratic compact between people and government. In the end, even that wasn’t enough. "