2025-03-30
We have TCW Daily to thank for today's bon mot, although what is bon about it is for us all to decide.
Now that we have "left the EU" to pursue our own national interests, it may surprise nobody that our shiny new prime minister is busy signing us up to all the individual aspects of EU membership - especially Defence - although somehow none of this has attracted any attention from the media, or indeed from anyone else. No doubt we will shoulder the real costs in return for its fabled benefits in due course.
"A pact which ... is ‘a mechanism to make the UK subject to the orders of the EU Commission on foreign affairs and defence policy [and] as far as the EU is concerned, a carbon copy of that proposed by Theresa May in 2018-2019’."
Maybe the the desperate need to deny the ever reliable Mr Putin any semblance of rationality or good faith (although it seems to me that he usually does do what he said he was going to do, a trait that our own politicians might care to emulate) has clouded their judgement. Or maybe after so many years of EU membership they still can't grasp that the UK might get a better life by making our own arrangements outside their clammy bureaucracy.
Perhaps they have simply forgotten how to do independent nationhood.
Still, "something must be done", so they are doing it.
