Monday 14 January 2013

We need a bloodbath to tame these arrogant officials

Daily Mail
"But the most worrying assertion by Mr Hilton is that perhaps 40 per cent of Whitehall activity takes place on the direct order of Brussels, by-passing our representatives in Parliament altogether. This touches on the increasingly heated debate about our future in the EU, on which Mr Cameron is scheduled to make a landmark speech in the next ten days. Eurosceptics – and those such as Ukip who are far beyond scepticism – have long claimed that one of the main reasons for us to renegotiate our relationship with the EU or to leave it altogether is the amount of sovereignty we have surrendered. That our own civil servants spend nearly half their time implementing Brussels regulations demonstrates this loss of sovereignty in stark terms. It is a wake-up call to the Prime Minister over Europe and the unchecked power of bureaucrats not only in Brussels but also here in Whitehall."

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