Swedish PM Reinfeldt's threats strengthen Cameron's resolve

Mary Ellen Synon addresses the nasty threats to Britain from the present rotating President of the ever more totalitarian EU, read here.

As has happened in the past, nasty threats against the sovereign British people from self-important continentals often have the reverse effect than that intended. Note this passage from David Cameron's speech to his conference yesterday that followed the demeaning demands of the Swedish Prime Minister:

"We are just starting the job of building the new politics we need. Because the anger over expenses reflected something deeper. The sense that people have been left powerless by big government.

"So it is time to shake things up. We need to redistribute power and responsibility. It’s your community and you should have control over it......so we need decentralisation. It’s your money and you should know what is being done with it......so we need transparency. It’s your life that’s affected by political decisions and the people who make those decisions should answer to you, so we need accountability."

"But if there is one political institution that needs decentralisation, transparency, and accountability, it is the EU.

"For the past few decades, something strange has been happening on the left of British politics. People who think of themselves as progressives have fallen in love with an institution that no one elects, no one can remove, and that hasn’t signed off its accounts for over a decade.

"Indeed even to question these things is, apparently, completely beyond the pale. Well, here is a progressive reform plan for Europe.

"Let’s work together on the things where the EU can really help, like combating climate change, fighting global poverty and spreading free and fair trade.

"But let’s return to democratic and accountable politics the powers the EU shouldn’t have.

"And if we win the election, we will have as the strongest voice for our country’s interests, the man who is leading our campaign for a referendum, the man who will be our new British Foreign Secretary: William Hague."

The full speech may be read from here. I am just beginning to wonder if my novel, written in the mid nineteen-nineties, which had an at first rather dreamy, old-Etonian, youngish Conservative British Prime-Minister save the country and restore democracy to the EU in the year 2014, was not as completely fanciful as I have been coming to believe in recent years?????