'if I were to have placed a bet this year, I would have put money on Britain doing well this year'
I agree that is why it is best not to bet in case you lose. But thinking about it, the EU bigwigs and menagerie of wonks on retainers who do their bidding know that the Britsh people have too much of a sense of humour to be influenced by this "spin" (and it angers their wonks that we are).
'“He raised a generation of viewers believing this was a fun kitsch show that had no relevance whatsoever."'
They want us to treat is as relevant and to have reverence for it in order to unite us as Europeans in a joint venture on a joint journey led by the bugwigs and spun by their wonks. But the British and the Irish share a common sense of irreverence and humour in the tradition of the great Irish Dave Allen and irish Terry Wogan and English Monty Python etc where we mock the "great and the good" and their attempts to spin us about what football team they support and that the Arctic Monkeys are their favourite band. These are the suggestions of the teenage wonks who think the people are stupid enough to fall for it. It wasn't Wogan who "raised" us with his mockery, because Wogan is a part of us, he is one of us and reflects our humour and that angers the wonks who try to fool us.
We are immune to their spin, theri whizzkids, their wonks and their Oxbridge Edstones and long may we remain independent and irreverent of the wonks, wastrels and whizzkids who try to spin us.
'The power of each country needs to be 'signed down' so that every country has the same power. ie, Kazikstan has no more power than Belgium. That is the way I'd like to see it managed.'
I disagree because i believe in democracy and one person one vote, so if Britain has a greater population than Kazakhstan, then we should have more votes. But apart from that, we should not be tied with Kazakhstan or Ukraine of Latvia or Russia or anyobe else because we should be an independent nation able to sack our own Oxbridge wonks rather than being spun by a European elite of wonks on a retainer paid for by the public and doing the will of the Brussels bureaucrats and bigwigs.