David Cameron’s letter to The Sun today hasn’t cut much mustard with hardline Eurosceptic Tory MEPs. Nor, one suspects, has the foggy repositioning of Tory policy on Europe in the light of the Lisbon Treaty’s ratification done much to endear Cameron to those in the party base who are suspicious of his preference for power over idoelogical purity. (Guido has a good statement of the position).
But what of the electorate at large? We were promised a referendum on Europe by Labour. They lied to us. Whether you are a Europhile or Eurosceptic, that should make you angry. But on this, as with so much else, we are all possessed of a general feebleness as the Government does with our lives what they please.
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An attack of general feebleness
David Cameron’s letter to The Sun today hasn’t cut much mustard with hardline Eurosceptic Tory MEPs. Nor, one suspects, has the foggy repositioning of Tory policy on Europe in the light of the Lisbon Treaty’s ratification done much to endear Cameron to those in the party base who are suspicious of his preference for power over idoelogical purity. (Guido has a good statement of the position).
But what of the electorate at large? We were promised a referendum on Europe by Labour. They lied to us. Whether you are a Europhile or Eurosceptic, that should make you angry. But on this, as with so much else, we are all possessed of a general feebleness as the Government does with our lives what they please.
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