ENGLAND ISN'T EUROPEAN:

Miliband on Cameron (ROGER COHEN, 10/23/09, NY Times)

Cameron, whose party holds an advantage of close to 17 percent over Labour, is likely to become prime minister next year. Britain, governed by Labour for a dozen years, craves change.

A centrist makeover has characterized Cameron politics (didn’t it work for Blair?), but not on Europe. Bowing to his party’s Euroskeptics, he’s broken with the conservative mainstream in the European Union — the parties of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel — and hopped into bed with a band of central European right-wingers united only in loathing for European federalism.

No one will mourn the passing of France, Italy and Germany, but we are an English country and ought to be helping them avoid the continent's fate.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 23, 2009 5:21 AM