A lot of comparisons are being drawn between the coming (whenever) referendum on EU membership and the one held 40 years ago. Back then, most people knew that the Labour lot, who were mostly against: Wilson, Healey, Callaghan, Wedgie Benn, Dr. Death, Shirley Williams, et al; were useless because they’d been in office and proved it. Ted Heath, the then Tory PM, was much more of an unknown quantity and possibly an okay chap. Although his Chancellor, Tony Barber, was busy proving as incompetent as Denis Healey and Gordon F. Brown.
Now, everyone knows from bitter experience that the politicians of all corners of the political world are useless; Tories, Labour, Gnats, Liberals, all of them. So deciding about the wisdom of staying in the EU is all about spotting the vested interests. The politicians and their cronies, for instance, are either drawing an EU pension (Clegg, Mandelsleaze) or hoping to land an EU job (Tony B. Liar for president, etc.), so they will tell any lie which they think will keep GB in. Outfits like the CBI are all hopeful of Eurocash; which is just rebranded British taxpayers’ cash which they wouldn’t have got but for our EU membership.
Who to believe, who will tell the truth?
That is the question.
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