THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Telegraph View: The Deputy Prime Minister's latest intervention not only undermines the Government but sets him profoundly at odds with public opinion.
Nick Clegg has in the past been accused of being a politician with one foot in Westminster and one in Brussels. Never has that charge seemed more justified than this weekend, when the Deputy Prime Minister went out of his way to pick a fight with both his coalition partners and British public opinion over the future of the European Union.
Writing in a Sunday newspaper, he warned Britain against running "headfirst towards treaty change" and "tampering with the EU's founding texts". He added: "We spent years fighting to bring down the walls that divided Europe – it would be damaging to let new ones spring up now." And he asked: "Why would we seek to head up a smaller club [of non-euro members] with a fast diminishing membership?" If Britain were to be leader of countries outside the eurozone, that would be "an extraordinary own goal". » | Telegraph View | Monday, October 31, 2011
My comment:
I've come to the conclusion that this newspaper is at war with all things European, especially the EU. It appears to me to have lost all sense of reason and balance. Furthermore, it has become the home not so much of Conservative voters, but of UKIP voters instead. UKIP voters and turncoats. – © Mark
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