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Originally Posted by arden forester
I agree with Roland. Fair play to Clegg. I'd far rather have a politician that stands up for something or someone, than a politician that is a toady of the first order.
Popeye!! Do you think that, with bailiffs on his door step, the Government would be less concerned than if he went to prison? Whatever they attempted to do would generate a fuss - BIG TIME!!!
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You missed my point guys - that Nick Clegg is making political capital out of opposing measures being brought in on the orders of the EU, an institution he and his party give unwavering support to. Furthermore, if certain commentators within the anti-EU movement are to be believed, come 1 Jan 2009 the constitution will be in place and national political parties will begin to become irrelevant as only pan European parties will be allowed. The LibDems will then have to chose between joining the gravy train and knuckling under or resisting the super state and becoming rank and file protestors. The EU might be riddled with corruption but it will not allow opposition to itself within its ranks.
Whether Nick Clegg is fined or not will be of no interest to the EU. The Westminster "government" will have no say in the matter as its sole purpose will be to implement EU policy by ministerial decree (of the 3,500+ new laws passed in 2006 all but a handful were by way of Statutory Instrument, ie Parliament wasn't involved).
Of course, if Britain retains its sovereignty and doesn't degenerate into a province of the EU split into 11 regions administered from Brussels then ID cards won't be introduced anyway - so the problem for a democratically elected British government won't arise. But then pigs might fly.