This business with the EU and the NHS has been very disorientating. My conscience is pricked by MatthewT, who commented on my previous post:
Well, m’lud, guilty. My side has failed to make the argument for NHS liberalisation in Britain (and has even failed to convince the Tories) but today I have an option. Why not become all pro-European, and have it forced on Britain by Brussels?“So you guys are against the EU interfering with UK policies except where you agree with their impact. I didn’t realise Euroscepticism was so nuanced.”
This is what the EU is all about: circumventing democratic debate. Most of the time, it does so for the left – and Labour sees it as a force to shift Britain’s political centre of gravity leftwards, bringing this country into the orbit of the Euro galaxy. So while I applaud the EU on this occasion I should – really – deplore it trying to do by force what people like me have been unable to do by argument.
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