For once Cameron is right – the corrupt, wasteful, sclerotic EU must change

I know Cameron is just a shallow PR spiv. And I know you can’t trust a word his speechwriters give him to say. But yesterday as he came under a barrage of criticism from the usual idiots at the BBC for his EU speech, I was quite impressed. Cameron got the message right. The key issue for all our futures is not just Britain’s relationship with the EU, but the need for the EU to change.

Hopefully the chart below shows why – it’s the IMF growth forecasts for different regions of the world

Although things are tough in Britain, I don’t think we can imagine what it’s like to be in a country (Spain, Greece, Portugal) where pensions and salaries are being slashed and half of young people are unemployed.

Meanwhile as the EU collapses into economic decline around him, utterly corrupt, self-serving, greedy buffoon Barroso, like an extremely overfed version of Oliver Twist, keeps demanding “more more more” – more power to be given to the unelected EU kommissars, more regulation to reduce European competitiveness and more money to waste on useless stifling bureaucracy (see figure below)