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Old 31-08-2006, 10:10 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Sun's eurosceptic approach remains very influential

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Originally Posted by John Page
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CABINET ministers are planning to introduce a work permit system to limit the number of Bulgarians and Romanians who come here, it was reported last night. Critics of such schemes say all EU citizens are entitled to come anyway — and will simply find work in the black market.
When The Sun covers issues, it covers them very clearly.
The Sun (the biggest selling morning daily tabloid in the English-speaking world) is a eurosceptic newspaper (thank goodness). While it currently (officially) backs Labour, it has done so whilst quite clearly stating that this does not extend to the pro-EU Blairite policy of supporting EU 'integration'. The Sun is almost certainly partly responsible for Labour not going into the euro in 2003 (when Blair-Brown held a joint conference saying euro entry was "postponed"). Had Labour decided to push ahead with abolition of our ancient and much-loved Pound, the Sun would have launched a campaign which would have helped stop Labour and almost certainly bring down the discredited liar and opportunist Blair.

When I hear leftists and europhiles complaining about the Sun I know that the newspaper is doing a good job on the EU issue (although I would, of course, like it to go further and promote the case for the UK's inevitable departure from the EU-Superstate now under construction).
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