To quote 'patriotic fightback for British leadership in Europe".'

The second part obviously should be reworded to read correctly as ' . . . British leadership in the EU'. As Richard regularly points out 'Europe' and the 'EU' are regularly conflated by those who should know better.

That of course would then give us a statement with 'patriotic . . . ' and ' . British leadership in the EU' in the same sentence. No wonder they opted to use 'Europe' instead of 'the EU' as a sentence referring to 'patriotic' and 'EU' in the same sentence would make most sane people want to vomit.

After Labour rejected Clause 4, and became Nu Labour, there very largely isn't a left and right any more, just different flavours of Social Democrats (or communitarians). The Tories could be argued to be paternalistic socialists rather than state socialists. They look after their pals but they certainly aren't small state, individual responsibility and free enterprise, although they like to flirt with these ideas.

The Conservative party has always had much greater problems with euroscepticism than the Labour Party, which is why the Tories have long given the impression of desperately trying to keep the lid on a pressure vessel.

I'd guess that as with Tory eurosceptics, people like Mitchell are party loyalists first and eurosceptics second. They see no reason to muddy the waters when the Tories look to be in serious trouble.

Sorry, that should read:

It appears that Euroskeptism and Climate Denial are being given the same treatment. Opposition to the two excuses for policy of the ruling class is submitted to the same tirade and propaganda treatment.

"Editor, your fired"

Mandelson and Clarke? How have those two survived in an age when the unsubstantiated rumour and the career destroying smear are the political weapons of choice?