Earlier this week I heard a senior pro-EU UK politician cheerily say that one beneficial outcome of the current financial crisis might be the UK heading for the security of the Eurozone in a few years’ time: ‘Europe as refuge’.

What a vision.

That after centuries of successfully mastering our own destiny we would now proclaim ourselves so utterly unfit to do so that we slump into the clammily tight collectivist post-democratic embrace of a currency space itself run to dubious technical standards?

Why is such a Europe a ‘safe’ place?

One can be safe by being the sort of person with whom no-one messes.

Or by being a weed, someone who shuffles along, avoiding bovver by keeping eyes firmly away from contact with tougher people on the street? 

Do we really want to join the European Refuge of Nervous Introspection?

Maybe another, very different scenario will unfold.

Have a look at what Tim Worstall has to say about the French Agriculture Minister.

Rarely has the difference between Gallic and Anglo-Saxon thought processes been made so explicit.

After a few more years of this sort of thing, maybe we’ll get so infuriated by the fact that so much UK money is wasted by EU processes at a time when our economy is reeling that we set in motion a plan to leave the EU altogether?

If hitherto impregnable financial empires are now wobbling and crashing, why not the CAP? And our willingness to fund it?