Getting Turkey into the EU was US policy under Clinton and Bush and they looked to the UK to help make it happen, which we were more than happy to do. One of our contributions, under Jack Straw at th… (View Post)

Of the PMs, Heath was probably a federalist and Major and Blair were federalism-curious. I don't think the others were, but that was where EU27 were heading nevertheless. Brown's Lisbon sig… (View Post)

Surely there must be one or two people out there, or maybe several million, who disapprove of the PM for any number of reasons but who will continue to vote Conservative because they consider it to b… (View Post)

The oddest thing about the 1987 storm was that a random civilian took the trouble to call the Met Office and predict a hurricane and instead of just saying 'thanks, we'll let you know'… (View Post)

They'll be bleeping out a lot of 'flipping hecks'. (View Post)