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You can let people talk for a long time, they’re always interested in what they have to say, but every now and then you’re supposed to contribute.
Michel Houllebecq, Submission, p.47.
As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail.
Michel Houellebecq, Submission, p.228.
The Prime Minister should not need speech-writers to extol the merits of Britain. He can just consider our history: in 1707 England was a hive of religious intolerance while impoverished Scotland was beset with feudal warfare. Within decades Great Britain had become the first industrial nation and led the world in scientific discovery. You can’t read about Britain’s history without coming across those who, like Robert Owen, the Welsh mill owner and early socialist, achieved great things by going north of the border to Lanarkshire, as well as others who, like the engineer Thomas Telford of Dumfriesshire, came south to work.
There is now little point in Britain staying in the EU. Bill Cash has won and I congratulate him and other Eurosceptics on their victory. It is an historic turning point and Britain might as well get out now as Europe’s future will be settled without us. The 17 plus 6 will decide new rules which will govern trade in financial and other sectors and Britain will have to comply like Norway or Switzerland or give up market access.