L’Épouvantail is unashamedly a pan-European enthusiastic; the EU may be imperfect and lacking often in basic, democratic instinct, but as the recent summit proved, sitting around a dinner table talking about problems, and then going home to face the politicians and press at home with sound bites, is preferable to them leaving the table and going home to ready the troops.
Well Cameron seems to be enjoying the adulation of his party at the moment, but after seeing his body language at and after the summit, I strongly suspect in ten years time when his memoirs are published he will pin-point that summit and this week when he realised he'd made a huge mis-calculation, and it spelt the beginning of the end of his political career.
Cameron made an horrendous mistake at that summit, and through his inexperience as both a domestic and international politician, has put the UK in a very, very disadvantaged position. When all the flag waving and jumping up and down singing Rule Britannia has stopped, more and more people will realise just that, as the true consequences of us effectively being booted out of the EU decision making process becomes all too clear.
As said above, L’Épouvantail is not a huge fan of the way the EU has developed in recent times; for years it’s been clear that it naturally inclines towards beings run by a technocratic elite from behind closed doors, and their European Project is hugely ambitious, massively bank-rolled, and very, very powerful. But the only way we can oppose the excesses of this behemoth and it's un-democratic instincts, is by being at the heart of the EU and making our voice heard, because believe it or not, we ARE listened to and supported an awful lot in EU affairs by other member states than our shameless, lying, rabidly beyond-all-sense-of-reason-and-proportion anti-European media care to report [an anti-European press incidentally ran almost exclusively by non-Europeans and tax exiles by the way, but that's another issue].
The EU's member states are not structured in a Them against Us way at all; in fact in it's day to day running, many of 'them' are on our side.
Although it’s appreciable how hard Cameron's job was, somehow he has managed to achieve the worst of all possible outcomes, and allowed Sarkozy in particular, to change that day-to-day face of the EU around, and make us the villainous, outcast, Billy No-Mates. Cameron has been totally outclassed on the world stage here, and we really, really should be careful about how much celebration we indulge in, because our country is about to enter a dark period where our politicians are not up to the job of protecting us adequately, and we are going to be very quickly dominated by a European super-state which, without us having a voice within it, will potentially become increasingly autocratic and that- in the long run- will make the world a much more dangerous place.
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