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Is the EU just a German racket to take over Europe? Nearly 25 years ago, a Tory minister told Dominic Lawson it was – and lost his job in the…
In the wake of David Cameron’s unsuccessful battle to prevent the German-backed Luxembourger Jean-Claude Juncker from becoming President of the European Commission, the Conservative MP Stephen O’Brien bellowed across the chamber of the House of Commons that the PM should ‘take inspiration from the fact that in a previous battle of Britain we saw off many Junkers before’.
This contrived attempt to link the current power struggle within the EU to the fight against the Nazis in World War II — Junkers was the company that built the Stuka dive-bomber — brings back memories of what a much more distinguished Conservative MP said to me 24 years ago.
This was Nicholas Ridley, the Secretary of State for Industry in Margaret Thatcher’s final administration …. http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2014/07/is-eu-just-german-racket-to-take-over.html
