So The British Are Too 'Uninformed'?  Vice President of the
European Commission Viviane Reding arrived in London last Monday
for an EU-sponsored ‘Citizen’s Dialogue’. The event grabbed a
lot of media attention because of remarks she made about
how ‘uninformed’ the British public is about the EU, declaring
that the Great British Public is too ignorant to adequately
decide to stay in or leave the Union.  She also blamed the media
for distorting the facts about the EU and therefore contributing
to this ignorance. Conservative MP James Wharton retorted: "It
might just be that rather than fearing an uninformed decision,
what this well-paid EU commissioner is really afraid of is
getting the answer she does not want."  Amid this arrogance, she
proudly boasts how 70 percent of British law is manufactured in
Brussels, implying that we are too integrated in the EU to
easily sever our bonds with the Union. Would that fact make any
self-respecting Eurosceptic reconsider the benefits of leaving
of the EU? Viviane Reding c