TOMORROW HERMAN VAN ROMPUY, president of the
European council (if you did not know) arrives in Downing Street for talks with
David Cameron, intending, if reports are correct[1],
to hand Cameron a few sweeteners to make up for his disappointment after the inevitable
crowning of, as the next European Commission president this week.
According
to today's Observer, the sweetener deals on offer include giving, "portfolios
for UK and other commissioners". Plus " a form
of wording about the EU's priorities under the new commission,"; all no doubt meant to reflect the results of last
month's European elections, that elevated Eurosceptic parties to a near
dominant position with the European 'Parliament'.
The
point is, as Boris Johnson has already pointed out, why did Cameron oppose Junker's
appointment? For if he gets his way, the position would have only gone to
another federalist spod like Junker.
Well,
I will try to help Boris. Cameron is trying desperately to win back Ukip voters
to his party; and if he is defeated, as he believed he would be from the
outset; then his stratagem of standing up to the Euro-federalists would have
won him some brownie points with ex-conservative Ukip voters, and may persuade
them to return to the fold next May[2].
I
think tomorrow Cameron will either refuse Herman's sweeteners as a further test
of his Euroscepticism, in the hope that his refusal will further lead to the breaking
down of the defences of one time Tory, but now Ukip voters who he hopes will
have their suspicions of him lowered far enough to change back come the general
election; or he will accept them on the basis that it provides proof of what
reforms can be made.
It
is all politics. If Cameron had not been put to the test by Ukip, he would
never have promised a referendum. He,
like the two other main parties, wishes to remain part of the European Union
and its anti-democratic ethos.
It
was Cameron after all who tempted his supporters before the last election with
a promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, but only if it had not been
signed up to by the Labour government before the 2010 general election. It was
a fatuous promise because he knew Gordon Brown would run off to sign it months before
he was given his chance to come to power - Cameron believes in Lisbon.
He
now makes a similar offering. He truly believes in European federalism; but his
party's voters and many of his MP find the very idea blood curdling. Some have
drifted away to Ukip. But there are hundreds of thousands of other Tory voters
who remain loyal; but who do not nevertheless, wish to see their nation reduced
to a mere province within a European superstate.
Cameron
is flimflamming his true conservative supporters into an agenda of reform
followed by an in/out referendum on Europe. It has its appeal to his die hard
voters, many of whom are supporting the party rather than its leader. But
nevertheless he will work his thimble-rigging on them and they will fall for it.
Any
programme of reform he manages to negotiate from Europe will be sold, in the
build up to the following referendum , as a triumph. The federalist media lead
by the BBC will come together to herald Cameron a great statesman, diplomat and
negotiator. Even his fellow party leaders will bury their differences to laud
Cameron's achievement when the referendum gets under way.
David
Cameron, like every other leader of this country's three main parties; is a
supporter of a European Union (EU). Cameron is only concerned for his own
survival as prime minister, and his party's victory come next May. Every action
taken by Cameron from now until then will be taken in expectation of further
power. Power is all that matters to a politician. I do not say that Cameron,
Milliband, and the wretched Clegg have no principles. But on the issue of
Europe these principles and the parties are all in alignment to the detriment
of the nation and its people whom they are supposed to serve.
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