Dispelling the illusion of Tory Euroscepticism.

As we know, today only 48 MPs voted to back Mark Reckless’ bill to stop Britain’s participation in the Euro bailout mechanism,

Meaning of course, that the entirety of our public service spending cuts so far, will be gathered up and shovelled to Brussels, to shore up a currency we never participated in; precisely because we feared that this would be the end result if we did.

In Britain libraries and swimming pools close, council workers are sacked, the military is eviscerated, rape crisis centres are closed and flood defence initiatives are cancelled.

We suffer, and put our children into colossal debt, so that our tax money can preserve the Germans their Euro, the Irish their low taxes, the Portuguese their jobs, and the Greeks their pensions.

And how many of the 308 MPs from the supposedly Eurosceptic-at-heart Tory party, voted to oppose this scandal? 30. Compared to 15 from the apparently euro-enthusiastic Labour party.

In percentage terms the difference is even more stark, with 9.7% of Tory MPs voting not to make their constituents pay to prop-up the Euro, versus 5.8% of Labour MPs.

These numbers very adequately expose the pro-European consensus at the heart of Westminster, and the fact that for all their rhetoric, the likes of Bill Cash and Daniel Hannan are merely fig leaves for a fundamentally euro-enthusiastic entity.

You cannot with any credibility pretend to be independent of your neighbour’s affairs, if you go without and indebt your own children, in order to pay your neighbour’s mortgage arrears; arrears which have resulted from their own profligacy.

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