A sinister ménage à trois in a rowing boat

THE LBERAL DEMOCRATS are federalist to the core, and probably think  Jean-Claude Juncker is Eurosceptic in comparison to themselves. So what do we make of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury,  Danny Alexander's claim that withdrawing from Europe would imperil some 3 million jobs. He seems to have been working with other alchemists in the treasury to bring a chill to British spines as he tried to do with the Scots, with his claim that leaving the union would cost each and every Scotsman £1,400 per annum.

            

            I support the Union, but thankfully the Scots are made of far sterner stuff than to fall for this bullshit; and I think his latest allurement will have the same impact on the British people.

            

            Nobody in their right and Eurosceptical mind (which accounts for the majority of the British people) would believe anything that the Liberal Democrats have to say on Europe. The Treasury figures are as bent as a 30 pence piece. You will note that Alexander does not say that 3 million jobs will be lost if we leave; only that they will be put under threat. He may be able to pull the wool over the eyes of his Washington audience when he tells them of his Treasury's findings in a speech he is due to give; just as he would have been able to do if he was delivering his (£1,400 ) Scottish speech; but he will not convince the people that matter.

           

            I find it quite remarkable for a party that continuously, in poll after poll, fail to reach double figures, should have such a stranglehold on the leavers of power as does the Liberal Democrats - yes, I know, it was a state of affairs brought about by a democratic vote taken by the people in 2010. But this, I believe, was due to the media demanding American style debates and getting them.

            

            In the end these 'debates' became a beauty contest were Nick Clegg managed to massage the nation's clitoris and gain enough popular support to put him in a position to hold the balance of power. A situation his party hopes to replicate in 2015 with a Labour Government. But I think Nick has proved himself an inadequate lover, and will not, and should not, find himself and his party in the same position they hold today…but next time with a Labour party to be screwed over. Only the British electorate can prevent a Milliband/Clegg government from eviscerating (as Euro-federalists) democracy.

            

            If it had not been for the almost maniacal Heathcliff-like Gordon Brown, the Lib Dems would have jumped into bed with the Labour Party at the last election.

DANNY ALEXANDER has now been joined in his orgy of masturbatory federalism by the wretched Vince Cable who has chosen to join in Jean-Claude Juncker's attack on David Cameron. Jean-Claude accused Cameron of lacking common sense; "common sense is very unequally distributed."  What does that mean for Christ's sake?

            

             Vince Cable suggests that Cameron's insistence on demanding Juncker's replacement has left Britain damaged and isolated in Europe. So what? What Cable actually means is that we have isolated ourselves from the European Commission; that mount Sinai from which we are all to be told how to live our lives - the mountain top of a thousand of do's and don'ts which national parliaments have no possibility of refusing because their politicians have signed away any ability to frame any law that violates European law.

            

             Vince Cable wants to lead his party. Nick Clegg knows this; and if he had doubts; then that poll taken after the European elections by the Liberal Democratic Lord       , while Vince was in China, would have confirmed Clegg's own belief. But it was more than just a belief it was an odds on certainty that this elderly gentleman whished to lead his party into a coalition with the Labour Party after the next election. After all, Vince was once a member of the Labour Party, and has remained loyal to his Leftist credentials.

SWEETHEART DEALS are part and parcel of the EU. I have always believed that the reason David Cameron pursued his attack on Junkers, was because the majority of the British people would support his isolation, even if Vince opposed it.

            

            But also, and more importantly, I believe Merkle and Hollande have offered Cameron some kind of deal on reform - after all they are as eager as Cameron to get Ukip off their collective backs. How this will work I do not know. But sometime before the next election Cameron will be offered talks on EU reform.

           

            How extensive and meaningful any such package negotiated would be, we have to wait to see: but one thing is guaranteed; the spin doctors, newspaper editors, and the BBC, will try to convince us that any such package is worth more than it really is. As with the annual budget speech, these reforms  will unravel in the days that follow and closer scrutiny undermines their real value.

           

            They cannot be significant. For if they are, other nation's would also want them  - which could see the federalist's dream unwinding. So nothing substantial, like withdrawing from Schengen, or taking back our right to make our own laws, whatever Europe thinks. But then I doubt if Cameron would ask for theses in the first place - being a small 'f' federalist himself.