But it IS, for political reasons, one of the political foundations of the EU and the UK's insistence to dismantle it is also seen as yet another attempt to break whatever political institutions exist at the EU level, to replace with nothing. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
This was when Blair and Chirac really feel out ( the Iraq war sealed the deal on their new found mutual antipathy ).
I have never felt that the UK wants to destroy European institutions. I am not sure where people on the continent get this idea. Money is a sign of Poverty - Culture Saying
The CAP needs reforming, not busting.