Ambrose speaks out!

You really do want to read this. As elegant a description of our cause as you might see. The final lines:

Sadly, I think we must start planning to extract ourselves as gracefully as we can from this Project before it has the chance to abolish referendums for ever.

Quite.

The Tower of Babel

From the Parliament’s daily press roundup.

Language bill (Daily Mirror, p. 6 - Belfast edition):  “Last year, the taxpayer was hit with a bill of more than £360,000 to fund Irish speaking in the European Parliament - even though it was only spoken for 30 minutes there in 2008.”

Not really much one can say about that, is there?

Quite right Mr. Heffer

Simon Heffer on the near inevitable break up of the euro zone…he’s very good on this today. I particularly liked the last lines:

As for the rest of Europe, it must choose either to devalue and end the pretence of economic strength, or persist and risk the breakdown of individual governments. Either way, it is never glad confident morning again for the EU and its bastard currency. Milton was right.

Derek Clark and Bobby Silk

This little campaign seems to be getting a little more airplay. The Beeb in Brussels ahs picked it up here.

Derek Clark is a UK Independence Party MEP for the East Midlands. Robert Kilroy Silk’s behaviour is doubly annoying for him.

The former TV presenter was elected as a UKIP MEP in 2004 - but left the party shortly afterwards to found his own Eurosceptic party, Veritas. Six months later he gave up as leader of the fringe party - and now sits as an Independent.

“We think he should resign altogether and give the seat back to us,” Mr Clark told the BBC.

“This chap has taken himself out altogether. ITV won’t let him communicate with anyone in the outside world at just the time he has a job to do. He is being paid and he is not doing his job, simple as that.”