It was very nearly a year ago, with the first phase of the financial crisis in full flow that I observed: "If, by the end of this crisis – if it ever ends – the EU is not a smouldering wreck, it will emerge stronger, more powerful and more arrogant than before. It will destroy the City of London and what remains of our prosperity with it. It will regulate it to death." The crisis is not over – just in temporary abeyance - with rumours of a currency crisis building ... and hotly denied.

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I think we can all remain happy then that the small glimmer of hope is growing by the day; Britain is growing more eurosceptic. No EU propaganda nor socialist thinking seems to be able to reverse this. In fact one might be so bold as to propose that New Labour have crafted Britain's exit strategy. Cameron might be PM from 2010-2014 but what then? Labour will not have recovered and the Lib Dems are the same thing so they wont be a serious contestant either only the smaller parties, the non-socialist, will have anything meaningful to add to the election campaign and none of them are pro-EU. As Hague noted "the EU is a ticking time bomb" my bet is that Cameron will not have defused it by 2014.

It seems it's finally happened, according to a Mail Online article yesterday. See:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z0RunMJtNR

Interesting also is D Miliband's desperate response to it in the Telegraph. See:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... kness.html

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I've twice screengrabbed that page. These things have a habit of getting terminally lost just when you need them. I suspect we may need them. Should all do the same.

The daily wail page.