When one sees, as per Marr's show this morning, such dyed-in-the-wool anti-Tory people as Tony "I look forward to the day that Thatcher dies" Parsons railing against the EU, it becomes - I think - increasingly clear that we are becoming more and more Eurosceptic, as I have said before.
This, I say, has us set on a collision course with the European elite. I would demonstrate that by asking these two questions:
1) Do you know anyone who thinks that the Irish result should be ignored, and that the Lisbon Treaty ratification process should just carry on regardless?
2) Do you know anyone who thinks that the elite will actually stop the process?
I think that, across the political spectrum in this country, we all believe that the Irish result should bring the Lisbon process to a halt. However, none of us think that Europe will do what we believe they should do.
If I'm right, when that sort of apolitical, general resentment against something builds up, it's bad news - for that something - and good news for those of us who would be free of it.
