During Prime Ministers Questions today, Michael Howard, leader of the opposition Conservative Party in the UK, came out with the below quote. Is it little wonder, that with comments like this, he didn’t get elected. And isn’t it just as well that he didn’t too, a comment like this from the opposite side of the floor would have done the Entente Cordiale no good whatsoever!
To put in context, the below quote was taken during a debate on the recent No votes in the EU Constitution referendum’s in France and The Netherlands.
Mr Howard called for a “different kind of Europe” which did less better and returned power to national governments. He added: “I never thought I would hear myself saying this, but 15.5m French people can’t be wrong.”