Joel HillikerColumnist

Europe to Britain: Let’s Part, Shall We?


October 8, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com

The global financial crisis has worsened already-tense relations between the EU and Britain. A high-level European statesman says it’s time for Britain to leave.

Joel Hilliker Britain and Europe generally have a lot to argue about. Lately, though, they seem to be reaching consensus on something. Something big.

That Britain should get out of the European Union.

Britain is full of foot-draggers. When Gordon Brown earlier this year furtively signed the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum—knowing the public would nix it if given a chance—an Internet poll at the Daily Express found that a cool 99 percent of them disapproved. To say that British resistance to the European project is intense is an understatement.

On the other side of the Channel, it appears the Eurocrats have just about had enough of Britain’s continual “red linesâ€