Rod Liddle, former editor of the Today programme, claims his erstwhile colleague Andrew Gilligan was
the first journalist to uncover the plans for a European Union constitution.
This sounds weird to me. Did those plans need “uncovering”? When were they ever a secret? It took months to draft that damn thing, and Giscard and his pals in the “Praesidium” never tried to hide what they were doing. Perhaps Liddle actually means Gilligan was the first to “notice” the plans. He would still be wrong, but his claim might at least make sense.
This is typical of UK reporting of the EU. We generally ignore everything that is being planned in Brussels until it’s too late to make any changes, and then try and claim there is some kind of secret plot to sneak measures through without telling us. Charlemagne makes a similar point today about the EU’s plans to regulate hedge funds. Pesky foreigners, eh?
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