The Decline and Fall
The Gurkhas and FSA: how they are related - Telegraph
Four stories much in the news last week, each causing the Government serious embarrassment, highlighted again the remarkable missing dimension in the way politics are now discussed, the "elephant in the room", which is that our real government is no longer in London but in Brussels....
It is one thing for our politicians to conceal how much of their power to run this country they have already surrendered to Brussels.
But unless journalists become more clued-up as to where that power now resides, ever more of the media's coverage of British politics will be reduced to irrelevant fluff.
...It is certainly thought-provoking to consider just how many iconic British firms have recently passed into foreign ownership....
Even BAE Systems, our largest remaining aircraft, shipbuilding and defence company, is now based largely offshore. Since it sold off Royal Ordnance, our Armed Forces must now rely on Continental companies to supply all their ammunition.
So, if this picture of national decline tempts us to shoot ourselves, we will first have to buy the bullets from France.