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The Euro system is vulnerable. We should seek its demise

I used to argue that the UK should leave the European Union.  I still do.  

But increasingly I am coming to the view that we Eurosceptics should be far bolder, and make the case for Europe withdrawing from the EU, too.

Speaking at a seminar organised by the European Council of Foreign Relations yesterday, it struck me how vulnerable the entire Eurosystem now is.

Advocates of the European project are intellectually bankrupt.  Their arguments simply do not stack up any longer - and they know it.  Defenders of the Euro project have as much credibility as a Greek government bond - and about as much chance of being redeemed.

For too long, Euroscepticism has been essentially defensive.  A holding operation.  An attempt to resist the encroachment of Eurocrats.

We have, for too long, framed the debate in terms of British exceptionalism - and the past.

No more.

A scam run by, and in the interests of, an inept elite, the EU is highly vulnerable with the advent of iDemocracy.  Its giantism is doomed in the age of the internet.  Opinion and ideas are starting to aggregate - and mobilise against it.  Not just in this country, but throughout the Continent.

We Euro sceptics should not only advocate UK withdrawal.  We should seek to free the whole of Europe from the malign influence of Brussels.

What is a post-EU Europe going to look like? 

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