To Go By Contraries
Emmanuel Goldstein, proprietor of the Airstrip One weblog, good-naturedly refers to Christopher Montgomery, who took over Goldstein’s Airstrip One column, as his “improvement” on the feature. I wouldn’t go that far, but Montgomery is a damned entertaining writer and today’s contrarian take on the EU’s “intentions” is especially provoking:
That is to say, if a British Foreign Secretary went to Brussels and laid down actual-factual proposals showing how the individual EU member states could be abolished and superseded by a Federal European state, by far the most probable outcome is that his continental peers would have to stare down at their tasseled loafers and mumble something quiet about how they didn’t really want that thing they had squealed in favour of for so long.
Read the whole column. Montgomery wishes the EU would actually form their superstate, without Britain, so the Brits would have a big lumbering entity to play off against - us, my fellow Americans.
On the disappointing side, Montgomery hasn’t produced my Sandbaggers DVD yet either.
