
SO PETER Mandelson reckons that Britain "obviously" remains commited to joining the euro. He is not alone. I'll never forget the sight of Charles Clarke insisting on the Daily Politics show that he believed the UK should and would one day adopt the euro, alongside polling results that showed that the majority of British people wished to leave the European Union altogether.
Unfortunately for these numptees, they have no mandate. There is no desire whatsoever for British membership of the euro. Switched-on, in-touch Labour figures like Frank Field and the late Gwyneth Dunwoody recognised this. But then they are a part of the old guard who saw the drift towards professional politics as wholy undesireable. Those of the ilk of Dunwoody - independent thinkers who couldn't care less about being in the right social and political circles - remained fervently eurosceptic thanks to their commitment to constituent and country rather than party leader and desire to schmooze with EU diplomats at posh drink receptions. But they are few and far between and the numbers are dwindling.
The fact that Mandelson, a senior Labour figure, believes the UK should still drop the pound sterling and become engufled fully in a federal Europe, should be exposed in the media. It is absurd to the Nth degree. Labour's failure to listen to its increasingly eurosceptic working class voting base will lead to its vote continuing to leak away to not just the Tories but rightfully to UKIP and regrettfully to the BNP. Not just that, as shown by the entire charade process of the Lisbon Treaty/Constitution, the EU is getting increasingly ambitious and aggressive. We need an in or out referendum once and for all to decide whether the British people wish for a political federal Europe or not. The EU teaming up with our political class to force through EU integration, apparently with much still to come, is totally unacceptable.