You know, having read through Douglas Alexander’s Guardian article a couple of times now, and listened to his appearance on the Today programme earlier, I’m still not sure how Labour’s new stance towards Europe is particularly different from
the official Tory one. The shadow foreign secretary tries to suggest that Dave and George’s position is reckless — ‘they seem worryingly complacent about the prospect of a two-speed
Europe’ — but he goes on to echo much of it himself.
And so, he suggests, ‘We should engage now with the fact that Germany is seeking treaty change and seize this opportunity to safeguard the rights of non-euro members.’ And we read elsewhere in the Guardian that ‘Labour is to declare it will oppose any further transfer of power to Brussels if it damages UK growth’. The party of Opposition may differ in their tone — but differences in substance are there few.
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