I first picked up this book because of its title. But reading the back of it, it became clear it was a book about Britains relationship with the European Union rather than one examining liberty in Britain. Still a subject about which I am under-informed, so worth a read I thought.
It was soon evident that this is a book written by someone who has a very strong anti European agenda, but I persevered in the hope that it would move on to some interesting information about why I should become anti European too. It didn’t. There is an incredible level of hypocrisy and selective quoting in this book, none of the ‘facts’ presented seems reliable because it has so much spin behind it that I felt I was reading the work of someone who is primarily a politician and also happens to have managed to get a book printed. Everything is viewed in a light of Euro-evil, Brit-good, and with the British economy hooked squarely to the US dollar, which is looking more and more foolish as the days go by.
If anything this book has made me more Euro-friendly, as much to annoy its author as anything else (not that I imagine he would care what someone like me would think, I’m far to left-wing for him to consider me anything but commie scum).
No poll for this one, I’m not going to waste your time.
(2007: book 4, week 5)