Conservative policy on the EU

Last Sunday I drew attention to the statement by John Redwood on "disapplying" EU rules, read here. I queried this strange idea on Mr Redwood's blog and he has now posted this "clarification" as follows:

According to the Sunday Telegraph today:

“As a “last resort”, the document says, Britain should legislate at home to “disapply EU regulation unilaterally where we think its is against our national interest”. Such a course of action would set up the biggest conflict between Britain and Brussels since the UK joined the Common Market in 1973.”

Inevitably also huge fines which surely we would be obligated to pay under the various treaties? Is it therefore envisaged that the fines would gather enough outrage that the 1972 act could be scrapped completely?

Reply:

The idea would be as a final resort if we were unable to negotiate a sensible outcome to use UK Parliamentary sovereignty to define the law in areas of national concern in such a way that EU law and EU Court actions were disapplied.

Well this seems to be another example of Conservative Party deliberate confusion as it is obvious that the essence of my query has been ignored. In the very unlikely event of this idea being adopted as party policy, like "in Europe, but not run by Europe"' the idea is totally impractical. The EU would cease to exist if every country were free to "disapply" pieces of the rule book it did not particularly like. I must say I am disappointed to see such a sloppy concept coming from one of that doomed party's better thinkers. The timing of his heightened activities and wrath of Polly Toynbee, however, are much more to my liking! BUT Why oh why are such distractions being thrown up by this supposed eu-sceptic and his party, when the 27 nations of Europe are staring into a non-democratic abyss, on which much more on the posting that follows!