INSTEAD of ranting about the actions of our 'friends' across the channel we should be thanking them once again for putting another nail in the coffin of that shambles, the European Union.

So much for the claim by Mr Blair that to be a member of this proposed superstate is to give us influence. Some influence.

It's about time our political leaders told these bureaucratic prodnoses where to go.

The sooner the population of this country wakes up and realises that we will cease to exist as a nation state if the tinpot dictators in Brussels have their way the better. Time is running out. We have already lost too much.

What a shower these unelected panjandrums are. Nearly all of them are political failures in their own countries, yet they rake in vast sums for themselves at our expense.

What was originally set up as an organisation to facilitate trade between European countries has now become a monster. What lies we have been told.

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