Ukip is a "very intolerant" party and its appeal is not likely to last for a "long time" despite its success in the European elections, Sir John Major has said. The former Conservative Prime Minister said Nigel Farage has been "very smart" and proved "good at exploiting grievances". But he warned that the arguments for quitting Europe are "absolute nonsense" and said it would cost billions and leave this country in a "very isolated and very difficult" position.The EU monetary system was set up in 1979. Since then, with some bumps and wiggles, EU has been clamping Britain ever more tightly in its iron jaws. This chart (from here, with my annotation) shows how Britain has "benefitted" from joining the EU. You can see that Major's own plutocrats were steadily losing ground during the long "isolated and difficult" time before EU, and Major's own plutocrats are getting dramatically richer during the wonderful heavenly EU time. Too bad about all those starving proles. They'll just have to eat cake so Major and his buddies can grow even more non-isolated and non-difficult.
The current icon shows Polistra using a Personal Equation Machine.