Are you suggesting that I am less than convinced of the merits of the EU ?

Heaven forfend !

Actually, I think it a load of total pooh that is only fit for mainland Europeans since we messed it up with ‘enlargement’ and has suddenly become ‘managerially’ unworkable – brilliant, time to leave the party !

Your logic may be right but however badly I express it, I’m really after something else which is to get people past an “imposed tax” (aren’t they all ?) called TV Licence and ‘I don’t like Eastenders’ to grasping a key concept which is that the BBC exists under a Royal Charter, the licence fee is a ring fenced tax that the Government of the day has no control of.

If we the “consumers” can get leverage – rotating representation (?) on the BBC Board and greater involvement, we have a powerful counter balance to any Government of whatever hue, there is real potential here !

Keep using the freedom of the internet because soon Brussels will have you stopped:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/3059617/Euro-MPs-to-vote-on-anonymous-blog-ban.html

It seems that too many blogs are critical of the EU. Fancy.

There’s zero logic to that. Just because your parents die and leave you £100k, it doesn’t mean you refuse to accept a rebate of £10,000 from HMRC. Or maybe it does in baldy’s world…