64 per cent of Britons want weaker EU ties.

The YouGov poll for the Taxpayers Alliance and Global Vision is summarised on the Telegraph website, linked here. Some quotes from that report: Overall, 16 per cent of voters want Britain simply to withdraw from the EU, while 48 per cent would like to see a much looser relationship, with the government taking back powers from Brussels and ending the supremacy of the European Court of Justice over British law. Some 45 per cent of voters, meanwhile, believe none of the three main political parties adequately reflects their views on Britain's future relations with the EU, while 59 per cent of the population believes ministers should disregard the EU's VAT rules if they feel a further cut in VAT is necessary in this year's Budget. The current rate of 15 per cent is the lowest permitted by Brussels. Hopefully the low figure of only 16 per cent seeking withdrawal, the only means of restoring self-government, would rise somewhat if the graph I prepared today and posted immediately beneath this posting were to be given wider circulation.