would EURSOC jump as well? Apparently trying to make a pitch for the title of Europe's most right-wing blog, EURSOC brings us a passionate plea for a flat tax. Apparently it's a "truly cross-Atlantic idea". The only evidence that it has any relevance on this side of the Atlantic given is the assertion that some "central European EU members are said to be considering a flat tax policy". Which ones? How seriously? Links already!
To me that sounds like the comforting Tory myth that someone - somewhere - in (first) Scandinavia, then Southern Europe, and now Central Europe will agree with them and stand up for a British Eurosceptic shopping list. It's never happened. EFTA is dead. But it doesn't stop them coming up with it again and again and again. Donald Rumsfeld is at least partly responsible for validating it with his "new Europe" crack, but the conservatives who love it so will soon have to find another group of "Atlanticists" or "liberals" or whatever. Stand by for Tim Collins on yer telly in five years saying that as Foreign Secretary he'd form a strategic alliance with Moldova to abolish the CAP.
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I think I rather object to this post. I’m the guy trying to write the most right wing European blog.
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