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Thursday 17 March 2011 | Site Feed | All feedsSign in or register--> By Daniel Hannan Politics Last up-to-date: November 18th, 2010 Comment on this Comment on this informative article Spot the difference in between slaughtering civilians at Drogheda and offering preferential loans Irish officials in Brussels are reportedly calling it the “Oliver Cromwell Package“. That silly phrase partly reflects the atavism of a certain kind of Irish Europhile: anything that Britain does to Ireland – even providing it money – is part of a wicked plot. But it also reflects a justified concern about the loss of national independence. As the normally understated Irish Times put it in an editorial, “Having obtained our political independence from Britain to be the masters of our own affairs, we have now surrendered our sovereignty to the European Commission, the European Central Bank,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, and the International Monetary Fund.”
And for what? The rescue package won’t tackle the underlying problem, namely that EU monetary policy will almost always be wrong for Ireland. At best, the bail-out will allow Ireland to limp along until the next time its cycle diverges from the Continent; at worst, it will worsen the Republic’s situation by removing one of the few advantages it still enjoys: competitive tax rates. Eurocrats have always resented what they call Ireland’s “harmful tax competition”. As they see it, successive Dublin administrations took EU subsidies and then recycled them into cuts in indirect and corporate taxes. As Nicolas Sarkozy put it, the Irish were a bunch of “cons“,Office 2010 Standard 64 Bit, who had been stuffing their faces at Europe’s expense. But, as we can now see,Microsoft Office 2010 64 Bit Key, far from sponsoring Ireland’s success, the EU has destroyed it.
Should Britain join the rescue package? Not if its purpose is to salvage the euro. We wouldn’t simply be wasting our money; we would be putting it to actively harmful use, trapping Ireland in her present discontents. There is a far better way in which we could help our neighbours,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 Activation, namely to offer them this practical alternative. Mark Reckless, whose grandfather was a Fianna Fáil TD,Office 2010 Pro Plus, raised the idea in the House of Commons today. Our Irish cousins don’t have to choose between bankruptcy and subjugation: they could export their way back to growth.