Steve Shaw wrote: What political union?

Well Steve, I am surprised that you haven't heard of 'Ever Closer Political and Economic Integration'. Here's one link, amongst many that I got from putting

'Ever closer political and economic'

into a search engine. Notice a, there is no need to mention the EU and b, i didn't use the G word. Try it. The link is

http://sites.tufts.edu/enricospolaore/files/2012/08/Euro-June-2013.pdf

I've not read it myself yet. I'll save it up for tomorrow.

As for the UK veto, well I wouldn't trust our lily livered political class to put the UK's best interest befor their own political advantage.

Don't forget that Tony Blair gave up our rebate in exchange for something or other and when the EU said "Sorry we don't think we can do it", didn't kick up any kind of fuss. How much are you willing to bet that he had not already been offered a place on the Commision a few years down the line. No wonder he wants to keep us in. If we are out he wont get the job, or the 10 million pension pot.

I suspect that David Cameron got a similar kind of offer if he managed to keep us in.