I Want The European Union To Be

We Cannot Go On As We Are With 2.6 Million People On Incapacity Benefit, 500,000 Of Them Are Under 35. Are We Really Saying There Are Half A Million People In This Country Under 35 Who Are Simply Too Ill To Work? I Don’t Think That’s Right.

I Mean Ukip, I Mean It's Just A Sort Of, You Know, Bunch Of Fruitcakes And Loonies And Closet Racists, Basically.

The Eu Must Be Able To Act With The Speed And Flexibility Of A Network, Not The Cumbersome Rigidity Of A Bloc. We Must Not Be Weighed Down By An Insistence On A One Size Fits All Approach Which Implies That All Countries Want The Same Level Of Integration. The Fact Is That They Don't And We Shouldn't Assert That They Do.

Competitiveness Demands Flexibility, Choice And Openness - Or Europe Will Fetch Up In A No-man's Land Between The Rising Economies Of Asia And Market-driven North America.

It Does Not Seem To Me That The Steps Which Would Be Needed To Make Britain - And Others - More Comfortable In Their Relationship In The European Union Are Inherently So Outlandish Or Unreasonable.