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Mr Cameron does not believe that EU withdrawal is "realistic or desirable", we are told. And he thinks hardline Eurosceptics who believe Britain can go it alone regardless of the effect on trade and jobs – or what America and other key nations think – are "mad". But, we might say, no one in their right mind would argue that Britain could – or even should - "go it alone", except that UKIP is arguing precisely that, with its plan to repeal the European Communities Act and then start negotiating with the EU. In this very narrow respect, Cameron is right. One can therefore see another part of the europhile strategy unfolding, alongside which UKIP is excluded from the serious debate while being exposed to knocking copy as the europhile Sunday Mirror offers details of the "ugly face" of the "homophobic" and "racist" UKIP. Meanwhile, the debate is further confused by the emergence of Swindon MP Robert Buckland, who hijacks the title of "Eurorealist" for himself. He is neither "Europhobe nor Europhile", he declares, as he rounds up around 20 Conservative MPs to publish a letter claiming that leaving the EU would cause "massive damage" to Britain economically and diplomatically. View full article here
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Quote:And that is another price of "Europe" – the destruction of the Conservative Party.
Sticking the Conservative party together with the elastic bands and sticking plaster of europlasticism, with its impossible objective of reforming the EU, is bound to fail eventually. The Conservative Party has been putting off the inevitable for years by pretending that when a coin is tossed and they are asked to call, heads and tails are both extreme options and that there's a possible compromise call.
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I find the level of debate on the TV news, well, let's say bemusing. How can they get away with 'dicussing' the EU question by assembling a panel of guest all of whom support the EU, with maybe a verbal reference to an imagined Cameron position of euroscepticism. And we can't get anybody on. Not the sceptics, not the antis. And certainly not anybody who would skip the tiresome economics gobshittery and get to the constitutional crux of the matter. When (if) the referendum comes, we won't get a look-in. When they need a eurosceptic voice, they will pick a clown. No names, no pack drill
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Originally Posted by: richard  Mr Cameron does not believe that EU withdrawal is "realistic or desirable", we are told. And he thinks hardline Eurosceptics who believe Britain can go it alone regardless of the effect on trade and jobs – or what America and other key nations think – are "mad". But, we might say, no one in their right mind would argue that Britain could – or even should - "go it alone", except that UKIP is arguing precisely that, with its plan to repeal the European Communities Act and then start negotiating with the EU. In this very narrow respect, Cameron is right. One can therefore see another part of the europhile strategy unfolding, alongside which UKIP is excluded from the serious debate while being exposed to knocking copy as the europhile Sunday Mirror offers details of the "ugly face" of the "homophobic" and "racist" UKIP. Meanwhile, the debate is further confused by the emergence of Swindon MP Robert Buckland, who hijacks the title of "Eurorealist" for himself. He is neither "Europhobe nor Europhile", he declares, as he rounds up around 20 Conservative MPs to publish a letter claiming that leaving the EU would cause "massive damage" to Britain economically and diplomatically. View full article here "and go full-frontal for the exit," That's not going to be the option he's ever likely to take, he's going into battle on the stated position he doesn't want to win. Considering this plus resistance from the collective he isn't. Our position as outers is severely undermined by the fact we're more fractionated than the inners. The inners have no such constraints as we're already in, much easier to maintain the status quo than promote an alternative. There needs to be more focus on the desired destination than the preferred route, the scenario posted in the last paragraph on WfWs latest blog re UKIP, Article here at least they could be, based on performance, voted out again. The longer it takes to get started the more time the collective has to counter any advantage and further tighten it's grip. It will be considering it's position and implications of us invoking article 50 already, on what it will be prepared to negotiate and the longer it gets the more advantageous it's position will be. Edited by user 13 January 2013 17:26:05(UTC)
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He is at least right that the Obama Administration will do everything in its power to keep the UK in the EU, and will punish your nation as severely as he can should you decide to depart.
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Is it more likely that Cameron will now get 'Thatchered'? We know that Labour are stuck with Red Ed, thanks to their system of choosing a leader, but Cameron's position must now be weakened?
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Two stories in today's the Sunday Times, highlight in extremely and blinding florescent yellow, just how Britain is all but controlled and ruled by the EU~Brussels mafia. The annexation, is nigh on complete and the joke really is on those who believe yet, that Westminster somehow retains a vestige [ any?] of real power.
Mind you, the joke has really been on the British nation who for 40 years have been fed the propaganda and lies which have flown thick, fanciful and fast and complicit in all of that: is the BBC.
Any road up, Steve Hilton, Cameron's erstwhile little helper averred that civil servants run the country and that Cameron's executive actually, could only affect 30% [that much?] of government business, nothing we didn't already know but interesting to hear it from someone who was so recently at the coal face - so to speak. In the other ST article, a Tory attempt to opt out of Euro justice [another EU oxymoron], it ends with a familiarly duplicitous quote from that multiculti hyena and Marxist social engineer non pareil Mili-ed:
- warning that Cameron's approach to Europe is "putting party interests ahead of national interests" - how ironic is that from a Labour man who was an integral part of the Brown terror.
The brilliance of usurping the ECHR and using it to cement the legitimacy of EU rule......but it only had one real problem region before the coup was totally enforced - Britain.
We are caught in, what a strategist might term a pincer movement. One claw involves the infiltration of the civil service and Whitehall administration and the other claw - the removal of British jurisprudence and its supplanting by a paltry, untested inferior European jurisdiction. And unfortunately Brussels is right on target to grab, disable and devour its prey [Britain].
We are sunk, effin sunk - unless we withdraw soon it is getting too late in the day.
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Originally Posted by: ChiefyinDurham  Is it more likely that Cameron will now get 'Thatchered'? We know that Labour are stuck with Red Ed, thanks to their system of choosing a leader, but Cameron's position must now be weakened? Oh I do so hope so. I have a very good friend who is steadfastly remaining in the party but is only doing it out of loyalty. Her husband has left the Tories and is supporting UKIP. I have no idea what it is like in a political argument in their household! On a personal note, I have managed to persuade to my lovely gorgeous wife that what she sees on the MSM is complete and utter bollcoks (sic). I have managed to teach her about EFTA/EEA etc and that what Cameron says is rubbish. We are TRUE conservatives from the past. Strivers and achievers from very poor backgrounds. Both of us went to grammar schools and believe in working hard/playing hard and being rewarded for it. We loathe Cameron and his brand of conservatism. She really has no interest in politics and has no idea why I get so worked up when Cameron or the others dish up tripe on TV. The battle will be long and it will be hard. But so it has been for the federalists as when did Monnet and Spirelli start talking about a "United States of Europe"? Dr North and others have been an absolutely godsend in my education (sorry for being a sycophant Richard!). But the "outers" are on a roll. I sense that despite what the BBC/most of the remainder of the media say, the sheeple are really beginning to get the gist of what the EU is about. However, it will be long and it will be hard. MSM will slander, ignore and do everything possible to stop that roll. Therefore, I believe that it must gain momentum at local level by linking (truthfully) everything LOCAL that the EU has had a hand in, and how it costs them money. It is all that people know. However, could we tap into the patriotism of 2012 with the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics? Play on emotions in other words because that is what "inners" are doing (3m jobs).
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As has been hinted at elsewhere everything is not well in core EU land. This is one of the absolute key revelations that the Euphiliacs want to keep away from the public discussions - no talk about disgruntled Germans, Frenchies, Dutchmen, Swedes, Poles, Danes, Finns - all is well in EU land and to leave while the party is in full swing and going so spiffingly well is unthinkable and anybody who nay says is a waycist anti gay marriage right wing bigot. An aside: Very little mention has been made of where all the Bulgarians and Romanians are supposedly intending to emigrate to - the accommodation preparations / planning just announced by Eric Pickles makes it seem that they are all coming to the UK - has anybody asked them what their intentions are? Is Eric privy to some information that he's not being entirely open about? Can we ship all our workshy erks in the opposite direction and have them subject to Bulgarian / Romanian welfare?
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I've been saying for at least 5 years that the Tory party needs to split as to keep on board Europhiles and Eurorealists is simply, in the long term, impossible.
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Originally Posted by: ChiefyinDurham  Is it more likely that Cameron will now get 'Thatchered'? We know that Labour are stuck with Red Ed, thanks to their system of choosing a leader, but Cameron's position must now be weakened? Thatcher was stabbed in the back by Tory 'Wets' but as Cameron is where he is because he is at heart a 'Wet' and supported by the old Tory 'Wets' in grey suits I don't think he will forced out. The only hope the Tories have in the long run is a Tory 'Dry' to grab the nettle and split the party.
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Originally Posted by: ChiefyinDurham  Is it more likely that Cameron will now get 'Thatchered'? We know that Labour are stuck with Red Ed, thanks to their system of choosing a leader, but Cameron's position must now be weakened? Changing leaders half-way through a term of office is one thing of you have a working majority, but quite another if you are in an uneasy coalition and the opinion polls are suggesting a heavy defeat in a GE. They must be tempted, but I doubt it will happen. As far as the EU goes, it doesn't solve the problem that they've had to rely on the bluff of renegotiation to hold the party together and avoid saying clearly that they are an EU federalist party. This is not Cameron's strategy, it's long term Tory strategy. A new leader would either have to declare for in or out and split the party or continue the renegotiation bluff, which is running out of steam. Arguably with a new leader, promises about what they'd do after an election win would be more likely to be accepted than if Cameron made them. But there's more to the Conservative Party's woes than Cameron and the EU.
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As Richard has said many times... Our real problems lie here in Westminster & Whitehall. Take the ECHR. The ECHR ruled that it was illegal to retain details of people arrested but never charged of an offence, particularly if the miscreant was later found. What was the response of McBroon? We'll consider it! Still not happened, DNA, prints & photos are still retained and the PNC record remains for an extended, (or whatever it's actually called,) check. Not the EU! Our politicos and bureaucrats! Edited by user 13 January 2013 19:51:00(UTC)
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I find the slow, painful death of the Conservative Party rather amusing. Though it is a shame that its so badly warped the eurosceptic debate. Why can't the Tories just expire, quietly in private? A Liverpool Care Pathway for Blue party?
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All this makes me sick to the pit of my stomach.
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I'm surprised and suspicious in equal measure by the coordination and overwhelming strength of the federast response to even the hint of the thought of the possibility of the rumour of a referendum in approximately six years' time. It baffles me why they have felt the need to respond so rapidly and with such force to an essentially theoretical event that, should it ever come to pass, would be a walkover for them.
We're fighting (and that's putting it politely as 'euroscepticism' hasn't truthfully managed to land a blow in over 40 years), the entire news media, every national newspaper, the FTSE-100, all the mainstream political parties, and every single sponging socialist with one hand rifling our wallets as the other squeezes our throats.
What makes us think we stand a chance?
I went down my high street today and the accent I heard most was not English but Polish, every label in the shops was metricated, and the EU flag adorned every 'publicly-funded' structure.
Barring a bloodthirsty revolution (which the British are congenitally incapable of), or a total societal collapse of some kind, nothing is going to save this country from its europhile fate AS IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. It is dead and buried and ready to join the other expired groups in the history books.
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I'm currently reading The Great Deception. It's prompted a few thoughts, which I've posted on my blog: The EU Peace Myth.
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Originally Posted by: Frank Davis  I'm currently reading The Great Deception. It's prompted a few thoughts, which I've posted on my blog: The EU Peace Myth. Good piece!
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Thanks! I was hoping that you might have a look at it.
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I still am unable to believe that people are still waiting for the Conservative Party to ride to their rescue on this matter. It is a never going to happen. They have had just four good leaders in 200 years, good not great and not one of them came from the natural fold. Therefore if there is nothing left to conserve it is time to move on start a fresh lay down the principles and engage a public desperate for change.
For those that think Eddie will walk the next GE first off he has to win Doncaster (North). The natives are not happy another couple of years and they may well be revolting.
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