Coffee House readers know well that democratic consent for the UK’s membership of the EU has reached rock bottom.
In parallel, the people of Europe are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with EU. This is manifesting itself politically and socially all over the continent. On top of that, the EU is currently the slowest growing economic region in the world – as in the final years of the Roman Empire, the EU has grown complacent and over-regulation is stifling our competitiveness.
This tale of democratic and economic woe demonstrates vividly the urgent need for reform of the EU. After decades of what Brussels would claim is well-intentioned regulation, and the rest of us see as interference by unelected Eurocrats, the EU has reached a crunch-point of sink or swim.
The people of Europe clearly cannot go on doing what they have always done and expect a different outcome – that, to paraphrase Albert Einstein, is the definition of insanity. The
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