William Hague completely loses the plot

From his letter in today's FT:

There is an attractive alternative text at hand, in which the EU ... gets on with delivering on the issues where it can make a positive difference to people's lives: making Europe's economies more competitive, tackling global warming and alleviating global poverty...

Wot?

1) The best way for governments to make economies more competitive is to butt out, in terms of the EU this means scrapping - the EU-wide Value Added Tax (the worst tax of all); all the stupid regulations; and all the trade barriers. So there's not much chance of that happening.

2) Temperatures have stopped rising, so even if there were anything that anybody could do about it (which there isn't), there is no need for it to be done.

3) Trade not aid, that's simple enough. Again, all the EU has to do is ... nothing.

I've long had doubts about Hague, but he is either totally deluded or the EU have already bought him off somehow.