What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.
It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.
In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.