{"id":1799,"date":"2009-11-12T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2009-11-12T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T14:17:40","slug":"britains-choice-on-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/britains-choice-on-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s “choice” on Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Delingpole<\/a> has problems with the headline on his post:<\/p>\n

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Kenneth Clarke is right about Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Look, don\u2019t think it didn\u2019t hurt me writing that headline. Just typing it felt like having my eyelids snipped off by scorpions and my eyeballs chewed by fire ants. But it\u2019s true. Clarke was absolutely right to say, as he did in that maddeningly patronising, brown-suede-shoe-wearing, jazz-endorsing way of his, that Cameron\u2019s allegedly bold new policies on Europe are nothing of the kind.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in. We\u2019re stuck there for the foreseeable future. And if you think Asino the donkey is a waste, wait till you see the extravaganza Brussels is planning for its EU Constitution ratification party.<\/p>\n

Think a chorus of white rhinos singing Ode To Joy.<\/p>\n

Think schools of blue whales doing synchronised swimming in a fish tank the size of Andorra.<\/p>\n

Think of 27 planets being spray painted gold so that they look a bit more like the EU flag.<\/p>\n

Think of whatever money-wasting scheme you like. If you don\u2019t, you can be sure that somewhere out there, some bright-eyed Euro Stagiere is busily working on it already.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Delingpole has problems with the headline on his post: Kenneth Clarke is right about Europe [. . .] Look, don\u2019t think it didn\u2019t hurt me writing that headline. Just typing it felt like having my eyelids snipped off by scorpions and my eyeballs chewed by fire ants. But it\u2019s true. Clarke was absolutely right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,62,84],"tags":[363,389,337],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-europe","category-government","tag-corruption","tag-davidcameron","tag-eu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-t1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}