Climate change is the Liberal Party’s Europe
September 3, 2008
From the end of the Thatcher years until…well, still, really…the British Conservative party has been tearing itself to bits over Europe.
No doubt, for a conservative, its a knotty problem. Should the country hitch itself to the European wagon, a socialist enterprise for the common good of all, but particularly bureaucrats? or should it march bravely alone into the cold winds of the twenty first century, upper lip stiff, wellingtons on, sinking or swimming according to its own character and judgement?
John Major spent his premiership fending off both the Europhiles and the Europsceptics, until there was nothing left of the party but a squabbling undisciplined rabble, some of whom dressed in women’s undergarments and suffocated themselves with mandarins. Its true, really. Read more
