Comments on: America – and why Britain sucks up to it . . .

By: Aesop

Aesop — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:27:40 +0000

Love it. The national anthem says “never be slaves”. There is NO Special Relationship. It is just the way imperialist Tories avoid taking on Europe and leading it. Let us get out of the bomb shelters and rebuild the economy after sixty years of failure. We have an example back in the early nineteenth century. Otherwise there will be an even bigger disaster with seventy million mouths to feed. I cannot say I am hopeful.

By: hajo

hajo — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:00:01 +0000

No updates since March – more please! Also looking forward to the internet version of Lobster…

By: John McFall

John McFall — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:10:07 +0000

Your book Smear is missing from Glasgow Uni Library too!
We’ll be on the bus with the yanks all the way, save one stop before the terminus horribleus

By: Tom Griffin

Tom Griffin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:36:38 +0000

If anything there’s a big overlap between British Euroscepticism and groups like the Heritage Foundation, a relationship which is formalised in the latter’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.

I think this captures the reasoning:

“On both sides of the Atlantic, the EU treaty is bad news. It poses a massive threat to the future of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, as well as the broader transatlantic alliance. It will further empower Europe’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), both major threats to the future of NATO. The treaty will seriously impair the ability of America’s allies in Europe to stand alongside the United States where and when they choose to do so.”

http://www.heritage.org/research/europe/wm1672.cfm

The Margaret Thatcher Center was also where Declan Ganley delivered a triumphal address after Ireland voted no to the Lisbon Treaty.