On the Edge

During the past twenty years the British discussion of European issues has increasingly lost contact with reality or rationality.
Wilful ignorance, political opportunism and media manipulation
have unrecognizably distorted the European debate in the United
Kingdom. Even those in theory favourable to a central and constructive
British role in the European Union have found themselves
endorsing many of the premises of their opponents. In this
short book, British attitudes to the European Union, particularly
those of the media and political classes, will be critically
reviewed. The authors conclude that Britain's position within the
Union is currently in great jeopardy; and that those who sincerely
wish to ward off this danger need fundamentally to reconsider
the political tactics and rhetoric they have employed until now.