Help, lead or push?
Sorry Scorcher, I intended the missing word to be "lead".
UBT, I thought this speech much better than previous EU Parliament speeches I have heard by him that were based mostly on petty personal abuse. Whether this is enough for him to lead an OUT campaign I doubt. The Outers are already divided into three different campaigns {UKIP being one of them} that don't seem to want to speak to each other and if Britain does vote OUT then I am sure each one will insist it was their doing. However, he does make one very strong point that has concerned me this year. In one word - Greece. I am sure that, nearer the referendum, CBF will have a thread dealing with the IN/OUT vote for the issues to be debated more generally. For me the German persecution of Greece on political rather than economic/financial grounds will be a major concern. Even the IMF, an arch-capitalist outfit, proposed that half of the Greek debt should be "forgiven" but this was rejected by German politicians performing for their own voters and responding to the demands of the German banks that were daft enough to over extend themselves in Greece in the first place. Greece had to made to suffer, perhaps for a whole generation, to appease German appetites for retribution.
{In this tirade I have quite wrongly generalized about all of Germany so should insert "some" in front of "Germans" and "German banks" and "German politicians". But tirades don't really work when you start messing about them in this way].