Power and fury...

“MEN may come and men may go,” said Tennyson, “but I go on for ever.” And so it appears does Tony Blair with yet another blueprint for frustrating the majority wish of the British people on Brexit.

In any analysis of the government of the EU, this at least stands out. It has no official opposition. As another sage remarked, power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Power without opposition is absolute.

So is the EU government corrupt? Don’t listen to me, listen to the European Parliament itself. It estimates the cost of direct and indirect fraud and corruption at £782billion (yes, billion) a year.

A 10th of that would bring any British government crashing down. So what will Brussels do when British money is no longer there to fill the hole? No wonder they are panicking. And the panic is coming out in rage.