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Murdoch has promoted the Tea Party in the US on Fox News, and this revivification in the UK of the interwar Anti-Waste League that got support at the time from the Daily Mail makes sense if you are that way inclined. I note also that Rupert is due to appear at the Leveson inquiry on next Wednesday, April 25th. Why is that date important? It’s Anzac day, the very date that his father did so much in his Australian newspapers to bring into being. I don’t know who chose that date, but it couldn’t be more numinous for Rupert.
I read your article with interest, Richard, noting especially the following:
“They [the Taxpayers’ Alliance] loathe the EU. Is this where Cameron is heading? Is this, maybe, the start of his desperate attempt to hold Ukip at bay now he can write off the Lib Dems as a political force?”
I seem to recall that my suggestion (prediction is too strong a term) that Cameron would go into the next Election on an anti-EU platform (perhaps even on a promise to withdraw from the EU) was derided as being the equivalent of “2 plus 2 = potatoes”. Perhaps that particular reading is coming up to “having its chips”? I still believe Cameron will play the Euro-scpetic card next time round.
Of course, if the ECB and the EU carry on with their ridiculous austerity project – the equivalent of tightening the tourniquet so hard and so long that the leg drops off – then Cameron may well find an approving response in 2015.
There are certainly many members of the Labour Party, to which I belong, who would desert Labour and vote for an anti-EU Party capable of winning the General Election i.e. the Tories. I’m not one of them, and would indeed cease to support Labour if it came out with an anti-EU policy. What I would like to see, though, is Labour properly supporting and arguing for the social dimension – the EU’s third pillar, which has resulted in so much valuable domestic legislation – with real vigour and conviction, while arguing equally strongly against its absurd neo-liberal economic policies. Well, I’m holding my breath, perhaps wrongly?