Eurocynic

It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside...

What is it about the British that makes them eurosceptic?

Actually, for me the more important question is "why does everyone like to portray the British as eurosceptic?"

Granted many of the residents of this island nation are wary about things that come from "Europe", but we are far from being alone in that.

We don't have the Euro, but neither do Denmark or Sweden, and, in any case, wherever you go in the Eurozone people moan about it. In yesterday's paper it said that it would be good for Italy to go back to the Lira, to relaunch the economy.

We won't give up the rebate, but the French don't want to have their CAP subsidies reduced.

So who's right? And why, therefore, are these other countries not eurosceptic, at least not publicly. After all, the French and the Dutch did vote no to the constitution, n'est-ce pas? And one of the possible reasons the constitution was ratified in Spain was that the Spanish government didn't give enough information to the people.

In many ways, that is the problem in Britain. Much of the information the British public has about the EU comes from non-official sources. The EU says that it's the job of the national governments to inform their citizens, but here the tabloids seem to be more present than any government information on the EU. And that information tends not be supportive...

Personally I think it's all down to food! Who likes Brussels sprouts anyway?