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Anthony Giddens one-time director of the London School of Economic, suggests in an article for Prospect Magazine “Labour should use EU to split Conservatives” at the next election.

Open Europe reports that Giddens “argues that Tony Blair has consistently “avoided spelling out what he thought should be the future of the EU and Britain’s place in it. So has every other top Labour figure.”

He argues that Labour should use “Europe” as an issue with which to split the Conservatives in the next election. He claims, “Besides taxation, a key area where it will be very difficult for the Tories to establish a coherent stance will be the EU.

The “new Tories” of David Cameron are more vulnerable on Europe than Labour is. On the one hand, Cameron is pandering to traditional Tory hostility to the EU. On the other, he is trying to take a lead on the climate change and energy security agenda. How are these two positions compatible?

The Tories should be pushed to say in detail what Euroscepticism, as they practice or propose it, actually means.”

The answer is that Giddens is falling into the trap of his own way of thinking, if he believes that Cameron is pandering to Eusceptics he is not reading the signs. We also want to know in detail what the Conservatives stance on the EU will be. So we would be quite pleased if the Labour Party does take up on this suggestion at least the EU will get a look in at the next election.

An excellent article by Jeff Randle in the Telegraph on the cost of doing business in the EU.

I love some of the thoughts:

“For the sad souls who cling to the fast-disappearing hope of that headline ever becoming true, it has been another miserable week. Facts are stripping away the Eurofanatics’ clothing.

Very soon they will stand covered by nothing more than the jock strap of their own perverse desire to further erode British sovereignty.”

“We are self-asphyxiating with red tape, produced by useless European Commissioners – the likes of Neil Kinnock – who, if not luxuriating in Brussels, would be unemployable.”

“So when David Cameron next says the Conservative Party must start talking about the things that voters care about, instead of “banging on about Europe”, he would do well to understand that, while he and his metropolitan clique are showboating on climate change, British jobs are being choked to death by toxic emissions from Brussels.”