Le Backtrack?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27579235
Following the swing to Eurosceptisim across the EU, does Mr Hollande have a point? Is it time for the EU to "scale back" it's power?

[youngmafbog]

Quite a U-turn from him, but hats off to someone who is actually listening to his people.

It wont happen here from the metropolitan arrogant europhiles running con/lib/lab.

[emmie]

it is, another ineffectual socialist buffoon.

[ToraToraTora]

yes quite unusual for a socialist to wake up and smell the coffee so easily.

[Peter Pedant]

verbiage probably

if those froggies dont like anything, they invoke l'exception francaise and dont do it anyway

[ChillDoubt]

I await with bated breath to see if the others will concur.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27583545

Question is, how far will they go? Will they be falling over themselves in order to outdo each other?

[emmie]

has he just woken up to the fact that many French don't care for the EU either, that the far right has done well because they like Britain has seen the country swamped with immigrants, alongside high levels of unemployment, especially amongst the youth, that powers that have been ceded needed to be revised and returned to the respective countries.

[modeller]

Scaled back ? Like scrapped ! Yes ! A virus has to be eliminated before the body can be free to start again. The Common Market had some merit at its inception but was ruined by the C A P which was largely the fault of the protected French system . A system which encouraged thousands of tiny inefficient 'farms' to exist at the taxpayers expense. That in turn created the ethos throughout the EU of state control over industry and every aspect of our lives. The collapse of the worlds economies has been the result.

[emmie]

time to take back control, borders, trade, laws,

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps Mr Cameron won't have such a hard time renegotiating now

[emmie]

he will do what he always does, head in the sand.

[ToraToraTora]

yes, modeller, I agree, the insidious CAP must be the first to go, absolute madenss.

[anotheoldgit]

The far right can't be all bad then, if it has managed to waken our sleeping politicians.

[emmie]

too little, way too late.

[youngmafbog]

Well yes but as UKIP are not the far right Cameron, Milliband and whoever will be leader of the liberals (who are they?) will ignore them.

It's just a shame it has taken the election of a neo-nazi in Germany to wake some. That is really a step too far and all the fault of the liberal metropolitan elite europhile.

[VHG]

Why is anyone who votes for UKIP considered to be "far right" in some sort of sneering way.

And why are the "left" so pleased with themselves when Blair and Brown, with their open door immigration policy, encouraged people to vote UKIP.

And while "far right" is said in a sneering way remember that "far left" brought us people like Stalin, Pol Pot and Chairmain Mao, responsible for millions and millions of deaths, often of their own people.

But the "left" always seem to forget that and just love sneering at anyone they consider on the "right" ignoring their own mistakes.

[emmie]

they don't like people to disagree with them, we have to be one big happy melting pot, remember!