Re Cameron's statement on the news tonight that in 1972 there was no mention of "an ever-closer union" and so on. It's bollocks. How does he get away with it? You half-expect Farage to come out with tripe like that but, I dunno, I sort of expected something less tacky from Cameron.
The very first recital of the Treaty of Rome reads:
"HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE PRESIDENT OF etc etc,
"DETERMINED to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe,"
I knew that in '72. OLd Horst Mansholt came over and explained the whole set-up - in detail - many times. If the EEC (as it then was) had been no more than what Cameron now claims we signed up for, I'd never have joined up.