It does seem absolutely bizarre that Scotland is not taking part in this census, but waiting a year. Presumably this is just the SNP being deliberately obstructive, but it really drives a coach and h… (View Post)

Who are 'they'? The EU is not a homogenous organisation with a single view, it's a treaty-defined collection of member states which themselves have different views and priorities. … (View Post)

Actually the ratchet has very much jumped backwards on this one. You won't be seeing any future involvement of the Commission in healthcare and procurement after this debacle. Member states make… (View Post)

It may be. Certainly we can all chalk up the EU's performance on the procurement as abysmal, and their temper tantrums and attempts at blame-shifting as disgraceful. (View Post)

I think we'd have told them to get stuffed. Healthcare is not an EU competence (in either sense of the word!). In fact, probably if we had still been members it would have ended up with it being… (View Post)