A very good takedown of the EU and an implied understanding of the threat,but ,what do they intend to do about it? Cameron has done nothing about it(such as offering a referendum on the EU constitution if PM) and shows no signs of wanting to anything.Talk is cheap.

Cameron is worthless. He is part of the problem.

Hague is worth ten of Cameron. But I'll repeat the comment I made over at Mr. Eugenides' when he posted this video:

Unfortunately, he still seems to be labouring under the misapprehension, shared by so many of his predecessors, that the aggrandisement of the EU's own internal institutions is a distraction, rather than the central purpose of the whole project.

"... the trouble with the Bill and the treaty is that they fly in the face of that British aspiration to create an outward-looking rather than an inward-looking Europe."

[A quote from earlier in the speech]

Well, of course they do. The "European Construction" has done so since the very start. That - not the fondly-imagined "little Englander" "xenophobia" of the pro-EU mob - is why we didn't sign up in the 1950s.

... as renminbi says, talk is cheap. But as long as they believe they can divert the EU from the course on which it is irrevocably set, they're on a hiding to nothing.

"Ever closer union". It couldn't be any clearer.

Hague has always been great at the dispatch box. Always funny.

William Hague couldn't be more right. That is Europe's modus operandi and with quite simply the greatest politician of our time (few can argue with Blair's astonishing skill and delivery) in that post, the next person to occupy the position would be looking at a vastly expanded suite of executive powers.

It's the same with the current EU motion re: harmonising corporate tax. A disastrously idiotic concept which the EU will slowly achieve with the same juggernaut-like beligerance with which it has sapped the sovereignty of its member states.

Bit by bit, step by step, bridge by bridge - that's the EU way. Yet Blair has the political acumen to take it at a gallop and the nation would be none the wiser. It bodes ill for our sovereignty.

My prediction is that Presidente Blair will serve two terms while the new Constitutions solidifies. After him will come a nondescript compromise candidate, probably from one o the small Eastern nations (former Soviet republics, that is). After that will come our Stalin.

"For what is the worth of Constitutions when they do not serve their functions?"

An old question perhaps, but equally applicable in the U.S.

Wonderful shot though

Ian B:

Stalin (aka Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) came came from a small, non-descript Soviet republic. I hope your 2 post-Blair predictions are not in fact the same person - Poland had a couple of interesting candidates that come to mind, for example, although I am under no illusion that there are plenty "willing and capable" in each country.

Cheers!

Well all I'm getting is
Rich Media Blocked.
So I cant really comment.

It's fascinating for this Yankee to witness British Parliament being reduced to saturday evening satire on account of their inevitable aqcuiescence to the holy roman EU.

Hopefully this will help me laugh away the nightmares that are in store for coming United Nanny States of America....

That and some Fawlty Towers/Twatty Flowers

The EU has almost boiled its frog.

"Bit by bit, step by step, bridge by bridge - that's the EU way. Yet Blair has the political acumen to take it at a gallop and the nation would be none the wiser. It bodes ill for our sovereignty."

I wouldn't worry about it. You'll be governed by Sharia law long before the EU takes you down.

I doubt that it will be Mr Blair as first "President of the E.U." but it does not matter.

Indeed it does not matter if the President of the E.U. Comission turns into the President of the E.U. - what matters is the powers the E.U. has already got.

Some 80% of new regulations come from demands fromthe E.U. already.

And what steps is the Conservative party (of which I have been a member since 1979) going to take to get back ANY of the powers that have gone or are going to the E.U.????????

NO STEPS AT ALL.

I wouldn't worry about it. You'll be governed by Sharia law long before the EU takes you down.

Oh. Dear. It's remarks like that which make me realise that sadly many otherwise good guys on the Right in the USA are just as clueless as those on the Left.

I wonder how much of that excellent speech William Hague actually means? Or is he just a very clever man showing off his ability at public speaking? Or how many of the Conservative party's MPs are genuinely anti-EU?

I have very much the feeling that the Conservative party at the moment is a case of the whole being rather less than the sum of the parts.

How long will we have to wait for an effective anti-EU party in Britain?

The 2 faced comedian is here(Link)