Photograph of Brittania statue, taken 13th June 2008 on Plymouth Hoe, Plymouth, United Kingdom. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is an extremely interesting blog from John Redwood MP, citing the history of two famous ships for the UK and the US and draws some lessons learned. Check it out!
Conservative Party (UK) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is an interesting viewpoint from John Redwood, Conservative MP. Check it out!
With calls this weeks for a United States of Europe, it was inevitable that a prominent politician like John Redwood MP would start the debate about the future of the UK in Europe.
Regular readers of this blog will know my views that I have always been pro-European in the sense of an open trading market for goods and services but I have hardened against increasing European bureaucracy and inefficiency, coupled with increasing demands for greater political union.
As an aside, the last couple of months, I have been travelling in both Northern and Southern Europe, and on a daily basis am reminded that European countries, their cultures and their people all are very different. I have a particularly vivid memory of a visit to the Austrian Parliament in Vienna and heard about debating in the heyday of the Austrian Hungarian Empire - each country’s representatives had their own colourful delaying tactic – the Italians would bring wine and food into the chamber, and generally make a lot of noise. It is ironical that the splendid Austrian Parliament building is modelled on the architecture of classical Greece.
Anyway, what do you think of John Redwood’s blog?
