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Alan Clark and the EU

Commenting on a Council of Ministers meeting arranged by UKREP in 1983, Clark writes:

"A succession of meetings, but no possibility of getting anything changed - not at my level anyway. Everything is fixed by officials in advance. Ministers shaking hands are just window dressing".

After twenty something years, it seems nothing has changed. Even after this year's election .....

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