Brian Micklethwait wrote about a free book from the Taxpayers’ Alliance about what Britain would be like once it left the EU, the idea being to present the positive side of the anti-EU argument.
Mike commented, “At least as far as I’m concerned, the EU is not, in itself, the principle target – the target is government and the EU is merely the most monstrous instance of that target.”
In reply, Perry de Havilland wrote something might I might have written myself:
That hits the nail right on the head. This is exactly the case. We need to eliminate the EU tier of state control so we can concentrate on attacking our home grown statist vermin. Although I am under no illusions as to the minarchist wonderfulness of Nigel Farage (who appears to have no more grasp of economics than Cameron or Brown) and indeed I disagree with the very thing that attracts most people to UKIP (the immigration issue), I urge support for UKIP for the simple tactical reason of getting rid of one set of enemies in Brussels, undermining the statist jackanapes Cameron and possibly realigning UK politics in ways I think that could in the long term advance the cause of liberty.
Perry certainly knows his onions. All I would add is if we are to decapitate we need to start at the head and work our way down. All the way down.