How boring are the Europhobes?

Yawn, yawn, the rest of Britain is not interested in the UKIP / Tory obsession with the EU. Are they against green energy, recycling, workers rights, free movement of people and capital, provision of services, deregulated skies, recognition of qualifications, E111 Healthcare provision, common policies on criminals facing justice, etc; etc; - do they want to repatriate 1.5 million gin sozzled Brits from Spain while they are at it? Now that would strain the NHS Liver Departments!! Say no to Little Britain, the British people have?

Do they not feel embarrassed that Britain, with its disastrous and clearly incompetent border and Immigration controls has no idea who is in the country, what they are entitled to or if they were involved in criminality in the past? Don't forget this is a country which stayed outside the Schengen Agreement (and forced Ireland to do the same as they are in a common travel area)  because "we want to control our own borders" and then after the political sound bite did nothing of the sort. The cost to the British economy has been enormous since hence George Osborne and Boris Johnson on their begging tour of China promising to introduce Schengen "type" controls for "priority" Chinese who now are ripped off for a second visa if they want to visit the UK. Result? Far fewer Chinese visit the UK and the tourist industry in France is very grateful.

The ignorant xenophobia in the UK, the most culturally diverse nation in Europe, can be seen in the reaction to this statement of the "bleeding obvious" by Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council.

"All our countries have to deal with a new diversity. The time of the homogenous nation-state is over. Each European country has to be open to different cultures"

This statement might seem like a banal truism. But to the trained Europhobe, this is pure old. UKIP leader Nigel Farage and the Daily Mail‘s Daniel Johnson immediately pounced on it. In an article entitled “The end of Britain as a nation state? Not on your life, Mr Van Rompuy,” Johnson cites the “homogenous nation” line as proof that Van Rompuy “has finally revealed his true colours”. Johnson continues, saying that “My first reaction to this latest diktat was to laugh out loud”, even though it isn’t exactly clear what diktat he is talking about.

The good Mr. Farage cites the same line in a press release and draws the conclusion that Van Rompuy “wants to abolish our nation. The only non-nation is Belgium, his own country.” The press release even mentions Farage’s own most illustrious episode of trolling: At Van Rompuy’s first speech he declared that the Belgian had “the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-level bank clerk.” Farage is the kind of demagogue who likes to pretend defending British interests means behaving like a poorly-raised child.

Do Europhobes have any opinion on the privately educated (ie; a tax exempt charity) millionaire trader son of a millionaire stockbroker being paid £2M + in salary and allowances from the European Parliament (ie; your money) over the past 10 years for frankly taking the piss. Step forward pint glass in hand, Nigel Farage, while your redneck white male mates stay in the snug making up policies on the back of your old fag packets!

For some it is still "Fog in the Channel, Europe Cut Off!"

Send in the Clowns!