The EU and blogs

A considerable amount of the right and centre-right blogosphere is up in arms about reported aspirations that the EU has aspirations to control and regulate blogs. (Ian Dale and Dizzy for example following this in the Telegraph)

I am pretty pro-Europe, which given my deep interest in history is no surprise - but it is the unending ability of certain European institutions to unerringly to shoot themselves in the foot which always astonishes me. Someone , somewhere upon discovering the proposal should have realised that this would go down like the proverbial lead zeppelin, antagonising even further a hostile UK audience and potentially making enemies of people in a wider Europe. Yes, I realise that this is just a EP proposal and so with luck will wither on the EU vine but even thinking about such a think is like pouring more petrol onto an EU-sceptic fire.

Anyways, in a free(ish) society like our the internet tends to find ways round such things.

Completely and utterly crass