Douglas Carswell's Blog

Well done

I keep being approached by people in the constituency saying how pleased they are by David Cameron's decision not to sign up to the new Euroland agreement.  A lot of people seem relieved - and supportive. 

We now need to make sure that the small print hammered out between now and March is not fudged - and that the new architecture to be put in place for the rest of Euroland does not emesh us. 

The danger lies not so much in what other EU member states might try to do, but in our own discredited mandarinate trying to negotiate their way back to what they regard their place at the top table. 

This week's result in Brussels was a crushing defeat for those senior Whitehall advisers who were urging the Prime Minister to accept a deal in return for some vague financial regulation opt out.  

One happy consequence of this week's events is that we might at last see Europe policy taken out of the hands of those agreement-at-any-price mandarins, and put it in the hands of those answerable to Parliament and the people. 

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