Our Doug.

Almost certainly most Conservatives, and indeed most members of the old political parties, do in fact want l’ Europe des patries. They don’t want Britain to cease to exist. Then how, after a membership renegotiation, could Cameron campaign in favour of an EU which has undoubtedly developed according to Monnet’s blueprint? Will Cameron (or Johnson, or any of them) give their heart-and-soul support to Monnet’s supranational United States of Europe, with its denigration and bypassing of national parliaments? Let’s have a straight answer, please. And it would be nice if these people – who have in fact badly let down their country – had the decency to recognise that the gadflies and cranks, and great Britons like Douglas Carswell, were right all along to be ‘banging on about Europe’. (I say ‘great Briton’, but it is worth mentioning that Carswell’s home was in Uganda until his late teens. According to Wikipedia, ‘his father, Wilson Carswell, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, diagnosed the first confirmed cases of HIV/AIDS in Uganda in the early 1980s, and was one of a number of people engaged in drawing the world's attention to the unfolding pandemic.’)   Prof. Tim Congdon.