We can now view the arguments of ukip and other anti-EU parties as effectively dead. According to this Guardian article, the Lords recently produced a report which essentially found no evidence that the European Union interfered with, or had any bearing on, our lives. ”In a hugely damaging move for the government, the European Union Committee of the House of Lords, chaired by former Tory minister Lord Boswell, comes close to saying that ministers tried to cover up the findings, which do not support David Cameron’s claims that the EU is ‘becoming a state’ and has already accrued excessive powers.” Predictably, of course, the tories tried to bury this report as it essentially scuppers their arguments for ‘clawing powers back from the nasty EU’; that argument has been clearly shown to have no foundation in reality, and thus, as I’ve said all along, essentially boils down to a form of xenophobia.
I’m very glad I came across this article. I can see no evidence of the story on the bbc website, although perhaps it will be on the Daily Politics later. It needs to be spread widely, exposing as it does the lies of Farage and everyone who hates our European partners.