At this point in time, why would anyone except for those mesmerized by Big Brother think that Cameron actually WANTS "renegotiation"???

I think the Cameron's non veto was akin to farting at a party.....it doesnt really stop anything but it gets the dissaproval of the rest of the room.Party carries on just the same though, just you find no one wants to talk to you now.

"It's almost", he says, "as if the boat is pulling away and one of our best friends is somehow saying 'bye bye' and there's not really that much we can do about it", Stubb says.

Yer mean er like watchin the Titanic sink from a lifeboat.

There is no cure for simpleton Tories.

One has to realise that the colleagues are in a state of total panic, their prized dream is falling apart around their ears, as the Zero ruins everything it touches.

They think they have a solution, one which the UK cannot possibly be part of, so in their desperation they are prepared to boot us out, despite that being against everything they have ever stood for,, as it blows apart the Aquis concept and the idea of ever closer union.

That they are prepared to junk Aquis and ever closer union, to try and save the zero shows their panic. Prodi's comments are just bluster, to try and save face and they are makeing yet another fatal mistake, for once we leave others will want out, rather than stay in the fiscal hell of the Zero. especially when we prosper once out.......that is if their crazed world even lasts long enough.to make it apparent .

That's not exactly a "cure" ... trooo, it solves the problem, but it doesn't cure the patient.

There are some ex Soviet republics in the far east of Siberia and towards the USSRs old southern borders which arguably are more corrupt than Prodi's home country.

This jumped up and pompous s**7 stirring little ar*e licker - is a tick bite and that is all he is.

Prodi, knows who will be the loser when Britain withdraws from the EU. Before we actually leave, the lines have been drawn and the first salvos are being fired, the trench warfare is about to begin.

Ultimately, the whole of Europe will lose out when Britain withdraws from the corruption and graft of this navel gazing over-centrist BS bureaucracy, the redistribution of 'wealth' from British taxpayer via Brussels to the southern regions of Italy will and must be halted because it all ends up in the back pockets of the mafia.

As someone said on a blog comment, and unfortunately I forget where [DT maybe and paraphrasing] "the EU is as just like the mafia, except the mafia is more efficient".

Prodi's kin will be missing out in Calabria etc when the British leave the slave Empire.

That figures, but I'll suggest something less devious.

I get the impression that certain of The Colleagues are a bit fed up that the UK isn't signed up, not for the boat leaving the quay, but the latest optional excursion (UK politicians aren't opposed to the basic idea of going on the holiday).

The Tories are a bit fed up with 'Europe' being too big for its boots and the other colleagues not sensitive to the domestic problems they face.

But basically they are all coming from the same place, the UK will remain a part of the EU come what may. All of what we see is consciously, or unconsciously, smoke and mirrors to suggest some great struggle is going on.