Words written by
Benedict Brogan in the Telegraph on the prospects of EU renegotiation, an article which reflects on the constant turmoil within the Tory party regarding the issue. The consequence of decades of continuous pretending the EU is something which it isn't...and it's coming home to roost in a big way (my emphasis throughout):
The Foreign Secretary's point, and Mr Cameron's, is the obvious one: the
EU is a club with a set of rules that the United Kingdom has signed up
to. Indeed, most of the big structural rules, notably the Single
European Act, were agreed by Mrs T. If we want to stay in the club we
can't reasonably expect to be exempt from the rules we don't like, which
is most of them. And that bring us straight to the political problem.
Many Tory MPs, and most of those who signed the letter, and certainly
those who organised it, don't want to be part of the club.
And:
No 10 even sees the Boris one, as in his column today, as unhelpful,
because all it does is build up the prospect of a major renegotiation
when everyone knows that in reality, it ain't likely.
And:
The anti-EU ultras are clever [sic], and are holding Dave's feet to the fire.
At some point he will have to call them out. That point has got a whole
lot closer.
Are those
at the Telegraph starting to wake up and smell the proverbial coffee?
