The last thing I want is for them to get a clue and engineer a referendum with questions and a PR campaign that suits them.

The next election is going to be hugely entertaining as far as the Conservatives are concerned. With UKIP taking votes and the LD voters switching to Labour, I predict the Cameroons getting the boot and being considered persona non grata within the party. The liberal wing of the party can take over from the one-nation bunch we have now.

Without centrally set interest rates and without bailouts, the credit bubble would have never happened, or at least never been repeated since the guiilty parties would have gone under.

So a move out of Europe is at least a move in the right direction.

I do not know what disgusts me more, the ignorance of the “mainstream” media (Mr Alexander is, of course, not a member of the Conservative Party) or their utter bias – which is so total they do not even understand they are biased.

However, I think the “Europhiles” (the media, the education system, and the corrupt corporate welfare seeking “businessmen”) are going to lose. And I think, in the end, it will be oddly easy.

Even a supposed man-of-blood such as myself is not predicting any shooting and throat slitting over this one, there is not going to be any fighting. The “Europhiles” will just collapse under the weight of their corrupt absurdity.

Many things scare me – but the European Union is not one of them, this particular absurdity is going to collapse.

The terrible thing is that it is not the real problem – certainly its regulations do terrible harm (see the works of Christoper Booker and Richard North on this), but the central problems facing Britain are the out of control Welfare State and the credit bubble financial-banking system.

And neither of these things is really an E.U. thing – although, yes, the E.U. supports both of them.

It is all very depressing – and if I had an easy solution I would offer it (I do not have such an easy solution).

But at least the absurd E.U. will soon be no more – hopefully the BBC and the “independent” radio and television news will go with it.

Answer: Yes. If only. The country has had to put up with a fair degree of international gnashing of teeth and bullying over its bank secrecy laws, but the country has one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world, is well educated, peaceful, prosperous, and fairly free of crime and related problems. Yes, some of its circumstances cannot be replicated by an island nation such as the UK, but that is hardly much of a problem.

I also like the fact that Swiss politicians are low-key to the point of being invisible, and I also like the robust independent spirit of that country.

And the Swiss understand also things such as defence policy means defence, rather than hyperactive interventionism, although in some cases foreign intervention, if you are a big power with lots of sea-routes and connections, is hard to avoid.

I will comment on how poor Dave has had to respond to yesterday’s ‘big boys’ – Clarke, Heseltine and Mandelson – by saying that Britain could manage quite happily outside the EU, but it would not be in Britain’s interest, or Dave’s I suspect.

The big question is will the Euro manage to last until the next UK general election. If Dave promises an in/out referendum but doesn’t get it done before the euro goes tits up, I suspect he, (and Ed and Cleggy), will have some ‘re-positioning’ to do.

But if my hand thinks he’s going off alone he’s got another thing coming…..

Citing Tony Blair as argumentum ad verecundiam is unlikely to give your point much credit.

But if you mean ‘like Switzerland’ as in the UK like the UK with regard to the USA or like the UK with regard to Japan or like the UK with regard to Russia – what is you point?

With none of those significant trading partners do we have much say in their internal affairs, we still trade with them pretty well.

It’s getting to the point that they are making themselves completely unelectable to any post that has a hint of democracy in its selection process.

They must have been offered something pretty damn sweet to both betray their country and ensure they will be unable to continue as MPs.