Reply #4: I doubt it- they've been trying for a long time, and not got very far...

[LeftishBrit]

Possibly because little groups of xenophobes don't make very good allies.

There are real problems with the way the EU runs - it does spend a lot of money on itself, and is often excessively bureaucratic. But if you meet a left-wing or liberal Eurosceptic, give them some material to read by RW North Americans who despise Europe for its welfare states and secularism. And then reinforce the message with some articles by RW teabagger-type Brits who want to get out of the EU so that they can follow hard-right libertarian economics and abolish the NHS. It may horrify them into realizing the sort of attitude that Europe needs to unite against, and that unity may be the only way of protecting ourselves from the economic hard-right, the anti-immigrant nutters, and the religious-right. Pipes and Steyn, washed down a little later with some choice material by Daniel Hannan, converted me to a pro-EU view - though I don't think that was their intention!