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'Everyone knows Cameron is bluffing' - Douglas Carswell.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11700580/The-rest-of-Europe-knows-that-David-Cameron-is-bluffing.html
He's doing his best. There's nothing else he can do, but you would have to be very naive to take it all at face value.
Carswell is right. Even at this early stage in the Referendum campaign its quite clear that Cameron is going to get nowhere with his attempts to win significant concessions from the EU.
Cameron is mistaken if he thinks voters will buy into a dodgy PR exercise as they did in 1975.
He's doing his best. There's nothing else he can do, but you would have to be very naive to take it all at face value.
Carswell is right. Even at this early stage in the Referendum campaign its quite clear that Cameron is going to get nowhere with his attempts to win significant concessions from the EU.
Cameron is mistaken if he thinks voters will buy into a dodgy PR exercise as they did in 1975.
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Something UKIP would know all about, just ask Nigel.
It will be much more subtle, or possibly even totally unsubtle, than 75 and concessions will be granted in the normal way after having cosmetic all night sessions to hammer out agreements. I think all of those 'concessions' will be time limited and will be rescinded in time. It is just a matter of keeping our eyes on the balls so to speak and there will be many red herrings as there was with the fisheries (apologies).
Fair enough. But this isn't domestic politics. This is the Prime Minister on the world stage attempting to negotiate a deal he must know in his heart cannot succeed.
That in itself would be OK. He tried and failed.
But we know what is going to happen. Cameron will pretend to the voters that he hasn't failed and will recommend a 'Yes' vote regardless of his failure to get the concessions he promised.
So if we really do want real change then we have to see those opinion polls narrowing. If they don't then the whole exercise is a waste of time.
It is good they are being honest, so we can make a choice
This will mean that every future treaty change (which the EU will need) will be opposed by the UK and will therefore not get through.
I think the media coverage will be more important.
Maybe he needs to check out what Greece is doing - their government is literally running the EU ragged in these endless negotiations.
Big business, the Eu and the pro-eu lobby will dwarf that figure.
I am afraid not, qualified majority voting came into force with the surrender documents (Treaty of Lisbon) , you know that bit of paper that was just tidying up things, that Brown signed, turning up late because he was so ashamed of his treachery
"With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon a new system known as “double majority” was introduced. It will enter into force on 1 November 2014. The Nice system shall remain applicable during the transition period up to 31 October 2014. In accordance with the Treaty, the new qualified majority corresponds to at least 55% of the members of the Council, comprising at least 15 of them and representing at least 65% of the European population. A blocking minority may be formed comprising at least four members of the Council."
I'm sure Dave would even rig the result of the referendum to make sure we stay in the EU.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33285893
"The Guardian said his intentions were revealed in an account of a meeting with another EU leader it had obtained.
It said the note suggested Mr Cameron believed "people will ultimately vote for the status quo if the alternatives can be made to appear risky"."
No shit!
She knows the Labour party, the Tories, the LibDems, and the SNP will be campaigning for a yes vote. That's the political establishedment in the bag. She will be aware of the polls showing a majority wish to remain.
Oh, and we haven't even touched on the big business and media, they'll be on side too, remember the Scottish ref.
She doesn't really have to offer a whole lot tbh.
I also think that the media approach will be more important than campaign funding.
Little Englanders can pretend we'll be better off out, but we'll end up agreeing so many concessions in return for access to the single market, it will make no difference anyway.
You do wonder how 180 countries in the world survive outside the EU - let alone the worlds fifth largest economy. It's very sad you have such a low opinion of your own country that you believe it cannot cope unless it is part of some superstate with a load of half bankrupt states who cannot find jobs for their own young people so have to export them.
The EU is just dragging us down - the world and Asia in particular offers far more opportunities.
The Common Agricultural Policy is the biggest protectionist racket of all. When New Zealand dropped subsidies the amount of innovation and efficiency increased.
All of them bar the express being pro-eu?
Murdoch may not be in favour of leaving but his editorial staff at The Sun will be. The Telegraph is the opposite, the Barclay brothers are quite eurosceptic but their staff will do whatever CCHQ tell them.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-26/tsipras-rejects-ultimatums-says-wont-be-blackmailed
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-26/greece-pressured-to-bow-to-deal-at-meeting-touted-as-decisive
Madame Blagarde aka Marie Antoinette and Frau Merkel won't like that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33296839