Singapore or Switzerland? None of the scenarios are likely to win over the much British voter“It’s cold external” was the hardest-working slogan of the 1975 Euro referendum. For the Britons of the 1970s – recovering from fuel shortages and the three-day week – the story of a European future was more convincing than imperial nostalgia,the warm embrace of Washington or the charm of the Commonwealth. But what approximately this time round? The assumption of pro-Europeans has been that the sceptics will be a backward-facing rabble with itsy-bitsy to say approximately the future. Are they right?So far the Eurosceptics have told us much more approximately what they are against than what they are for. They attack the euro, austerity, and the common agricultural policy,red tape, free movement. But once the referendum starts, and the sceptics will need to reveal their own plans for Britain’s future. One of the biggest questions is whether the four main variants of Euroscepticism can coalesce into a single campaign – and whether the media will force them to develop a single alternative.
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Source: theguardian.com