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 Who Runs Britain Vote 2005
Who runs Britain? That’s the question we’re asking in this year’s Today Programme Christmas poll. We’ve invited three ‘bloggers’ to follow the arguments. Read their biographies.
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Wednesday 14 December: TIM IRELAND
EU MUST BE JOKING
If the question is 'Who runs Britain?', then today's candidate - the European Union - shouldn't even be considered for the top spot.
We are voluntary participants in that union. Even if you hold the view that an unelected bureaucracy with a mind of its own drives/cripples/threatens our economy, laws and rights, you have to acknowledge that we helped to create this animal.... and that the primary weapon used to beat this mythical creature is a rolled-up newspaper.
We can say goodbye to the union or seek to change or re-shape it at any time we please. We have that power. But the terms under which we the people get to have a say about this have been shaped not by the elected government of the day, but by media owner Rupert Murdoch.
As a candidate, the European Union serves primarily as a clear example that allows us toput the following alternative candidates in their correct order:
1. The Media
2. The Government
3. The People
OK, that's the question addressed... a short and clearly biased rant follows:
The EU is a foreign and largely unelected body that drains our economy and interferes with our affairs... so say the newspapers owned by the unelected tax-avoiding foreigner who continually meddles in our affairs.
(Feel free to ignore this information... it's all part of a nutty conspiracy theory.)
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