The EU loves Brown, if nobody else does

Or at least they want him to be kept in power until the next stage of the project is completed, and Ireland has seen the error of its thinking and voted for the treaty/constitution.

The same motive may be seen in two other leading pro-EU bodies, - the Guardian newspaper and the Financial Times.

The Guardian is leading the charge in claiming that the Tories, in leaving the largely europhile EPP and helping set up a more companionable slightly eurosceptic grouping, is joining a set of odd-balls and worse, despite many pointing out that many of the same uncomfortable views are in the EPP itself and in the socialist grouping, - but these are alright as they are europhiles! The BBC is joining the chorus, - no surprise there, given the BBC bias.

Now the FT, probably our most euro-fanatical daily, is joining in . They have somehow worked out what everybody is is unable to do, that the BNP takes its votes from the Tories, while even the New Satesman and many others rightly see the BNP as being to the left of Labour. Now the FT is describing UKIP as "far-right".

These are examples of left wing smear and sneer, - give labels and repeat them often enough and you can defeat rational argument. Perhaps we should not expect much more from the Guardian, - do Michael White and Polly Toynbee write for them?, and they have form. We ought to be able to expect more from a business newspaper which claims to act rationally in judging the business world.