TIME TO JUNK JUNCKER

The loss of Angela Merkel's support over the appointment
of the next EU President must not weaken David Cameron's
resolve to make the appointment transparent and democratic.
The Prime Minister insists that for the EU to thrive it should be 
led by those who respect the sovereign state and the need to
streamline the suffocating, unaccountable and federalist
Brussels bureaucracy, objectives ignored by the former
Luxembourg prime minister.

If successful in his candidacy Claude Juncker will surely
ignore these imperatives, as the EU peers into the deflationary
abyss, supporting 50% of global social spending on the strength 
of 1% growth. A tipping point has been reached in the UK's
relationship with the EU and the Prime Minister must do more
than mouth platitudes, promising the impossible of repatriating
legislative powers back to Westminster.

Should this federalist face from the past become president, David
Cameron should act on his threat to bring to bring forward to 2016 the
referendum on UK membership of the EU, which is fast developing all the
characteristics of a full-blown federal state.