Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.