The British are solely concerned about their economic interests, nothing else...OOOOKKK !!!!

The former European Commission president, who is credited as the architect of the modern EU and the euro, has broken ranks with other European leaders to offer Britain an exit from the Union.

"The British are solely concerned about their economic interests, nothing else. They could be offered a different form of partnership," he told Handelsblatt, a German financial newspaper. "If the British cannot support the trend towards more integration in Europe, we can nevertheless remain friends, but on a different basis. I could imagine a form such as a European economic area or a free-trade agreement." The comments will add weight to growing demands from Conservative backbench MPs and Euro-sceptics for David Cameron to renegotiate Britain's relationship with Europe and to bring back powers from the EU to Westminster. The Prime Minister has said that he supports continued EU membership but wants a "new settlement" which will involve Britain opting-out of justice measures and seeking exemptions to any further centralisation of power in Brussels...at last an honest acknowledgement that the goal is a federal europe. if there was any doubt about it monsieur delors has settled it once and for all. So now the way forward is clear. the choice is between being part of this federation and losing our independence and sovereignty, or coming out and retaining our sovereignty. and it is for the british people to decide, not the politicians.  There can no longer be any attempts to bamboozle the electorate with hypocritical talk of renegotiation. it is time for a referendum without further delay. The future is not further 'integration' and the assembly of a colossal superstate - the future is independence and individuality. Nowhere in the world do people think the same way as politicians and bureaucrats. Everywhere you see that when left to themselves, people want their own unique identity, control over their own environment and their own destiny. Bureaucrats believe 'bigger is best' while people know that small is beautiful. That's why the Berlin wall fell, why Slovakia split from the Czech republic, why the Baltic states went their own way; why Belgium had no government for over a year; why Scotland wants independence and why even California and Texas talk about seceding from the Union. Then one and only treason why bureaucrats want bigger and bigger is because it means more money for them. Like lawyers, they'll happily sell you down the river in return for 30 pieces of silver, or in the case of the EU, 300,000 pieces of silver. They're nothing if not greedy.  Britain should find its own way in the world. As a nation we are more than capable. We don't need thousands of regulations, tens of thousands of bureaucrats, mollycoddling or being told what to do all the time. We want freedom - freedom to invent, to explore, to create, and determine our own future. The EU project is at an end - it is time for us to create a nation fit for the future, fit for all our people to live and thrive in - a nation where we alone hold the reins and guide our own destiny. Just leave, it is only the corrupt who want us to stay in this corrupt organisation. The EUSSR must be with out any doubt the most corrupt organisation in the world. Why was my father and millions of others killed for our freedom, as I was told as as child. Was this just a lie, if not was was it? Did our government say this so control of us could be done in different way? Our government only has a white flag to wave at the EUSSR. I would now take up arms against this invasion of England, but the young of this country are brainwashed in believing in a none existent country. Europe is not a country it is a continent. People should Think, Think, Think, but no, that is not allowed.

If Delors thinks ' the British are solely concerned about their economic interests, nothing else' he is deluded. The British are concerned about their increasing inability to make and uphold their own laws, control their own borders , have an elected Parliament accountable to the electorate not a foreign governing body, and all other issues resulting from having the jackboot of the EU on its neck. There is also the little matter, not often in the news, of the plan to abolish England! Prezza was merrily engaged in working on EU plans to split England up into EU departments when he wasn't chasing his secretary round his desk. Kept that one quiet, haven't you Jacques?,,,The UK shall not exist as a nation state if it remains in the EU. Instead, we shall be a northern province of centrally ruled state run by unaccountable people who consider themselves a special priestly caste with unique access to the truth and what is good for everyone. Little people will be expected to genuflect to these Platonic Kings who know the real world beyond the dark cave of ignorance which is our lot. Those who shout for democracy will be seen as trouble makers and silenced accordingly because they will be attacking the dear leaders who, by definition, know the truth and do not need or want to be pestered by shouts from the ignorant. We ditched this sort of disgusting ignorance when we kicked out King James 1 in the Glorious Revolution. And, now, Cameron, Clegg and Milliband seem to want to junk several hundred years of political evolution to return to a primitive, unstable and very dangerous form of government lacking, even, the checks and balances extant in the late 17th century...Delors is right.... but it seems the ignorant, selfish and small minded politicians in Westminster are still trying to tell the rest of us that the UK system is substandard and should be junked in favour of the political disaster that is the EU....Simple response to any EU apologist like Delors. Do not believe them, these are the people who have destroyed currencies, installed puppet governments, created poverty for millions and replaced national sovereignty with EU sovereignty through an authoritarian EU.

These politicians loathe normal people and have absolutely no regard for our right to vote them in and out and have persistently lied and covered up the systematic selling out of UK sovreignty over the last 45 years.  They have betrayed us and think our rights can be disposed of as quickly and with as little compunction as a knifeman slits the throat of a calf in an abbatoir.

Britain is expected to lose its AAA credit rating this year, dealing a blow to George Osborne's defence of deep spending cuts as the key to retaining Britain's status with global investors.
Many economists predict at least one of the three main credit ratings agencies – Moody's, Fitch or Standard & Poor's – will declare the UK a bigger lending risk in response to the chancellor's admission in the autumn statement that austerity will run for at least eight years, until 2018, rather than the original five.
Those same economists largely agree that in a world where most developed countries have found life tough going, there will be little impact on the UK's creditworthiness. Like the US and France, which have already seen their pride dented by a demotion to AA, the UK will still be a safe haven for foreign cash, and thereby enjoy relatively low interest rates.
But lower growth and bigger borrowing add up to a greater risk that the UK will find 2013 tougher than expected.
All the major forecasters have downgraded growth for the coming year, including the Treasury's own Office for Budget Responsibility. The OBR's most recent outlook put growth in 2013 at 1.2% – down from the previous prediction of 2%. Not until 2017 does the trend return to a point where unemployment comes down in any significant way.
Part of the downgrade in growth stems from expectations of lacklustre investment spending by business. Without investment in new equipment, the economy is likely to suffer over the longer term. Osborne has promised a rise in public investment this year, partly to make up the difference, but only enough to make up a quarter of the total he cut in 2010.
In budget terms 2013 will be characterised by social security cuts, which are due to take effect in earnest after an initial focus on tax rises (the increase in VAT to 20%) and job losses in the public sector (more than 700,000 so far).