With every day that passes it gets easier to see how Britain might accidentally stumble into withdrawal from the European Union into a highly uncertain future by 2017. More than that, with every passing day that the eurozone fails to address its economic malaise and political paralysis, it becomes easier to imagine the EU’s eventual break-up into … well, no one knows, but it will not be pretty.
Last week the Brussels commission sprung a surprise on David Cameron, though not on Treasury officials and diplomats, it seems, in the shape of that £1.7bn surcharge which Angela Merkel – and now Denmark’s Mrs Borgen – say London must play by the rules and pay without complaint. Apparently they don’t realise that it can’t do so without also gifting sackfuls of know-nothing votes to the UK Independence party.
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