According to Michael White, 70 per cent of us are swivel-eyed

From Daniel Hannan's Torygraph blog:   According to The Guardian’s Michael White, “Dan was on TV yesterday being swivel-eyed about a UK referendum on the Lisbon Treaty”. Swivel-eyed? As it happens, I have learned the trick of moving my eyeballs independently of each other, and occasionally perform it to amuse young children. But I’m pretty sure I wasn’t doing so during the interview Michael is refering to. Judge for yourself:   Want a referendum? You must be mad What the old boy means, I think, is that it is intrinsically deranged to call for a popular vote on Europe. In which case, all three parties were swivel-eyed at the last election when they promised a plebiscite (a promise which Labour and the LibDems then broke). As for the 70 per cent of British voters who want a referendum, they must be dribbling, yammering loons. Perhaps, as Shakespeare’s gravedigger observes when musing on why the insane Hamlet was sent to England, “‘Twill not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he”. Except that the Germans, the Dutch, the French and others seem to want a referendum just as much as the psychotic Brits. How terrifying it must be for Michael, being one of a few sane men on a demented continent.

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