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- Dave Burrows
Leader: Things set to get worse for Britain
Friday 4th November 2011, 12:55PM GMT.
The saving grace of the whole Eurozone disaster has been that Britain is not in the Euro and has not been directly embroiled in the chaotic mess.
But a week is a long time in politics and the fears that Britain would not be able to avoid being dragged in are being borne out.
Only last week George Osborne was stating quite categorically that British money would not be used to bail out our European neighbours.
Now we find that Britain is to make a payment through the back door by pumping more cash into the International Monetary Fund to increase the funds available to support ailing economies – with Italy and Spain predicted to be among the first with the begging bowl.
David Cameron’s fig leaf to explain this to his backbenchers is that it is not a direct bailout payment.
That is a slippery justification. It is British money and it is money that this nation cannot afford, and should not have to be coughing up.
Mr Cameron simply says it is right to make the contribution at a time of crisis. Baldly saying doing something “is right” has become his hallmark phrase.
His pals in the European club will entirely agree that it is right as Britain is taken for a mug yet again.
It makes you wonder, not for the first time, what Mr Cameron stands for, and who he stands for.
On so many things he seems prepared to roll over.
It would be nice if he showed some backbone and some conviction on something. Maybe he is scared that should he do so, he will be compared to Margaret Thatcher.
So we have to ask who is David Cameron – and does he know the answer himself?
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It’s not “payment through the back door”, it’s payment to the IMP that we would have been paying regardless of the Eurozone Crisis.
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No coincidence that there is a Poundworld opening on Meole Brace Retail Park. There’s the future. Brace yourselves indeed.
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Cameron is hand in glove with the EU to lose our independence and take our money. If not, he wouldn’t have whipped his MPs (including Owen Paterson) to vote against letting the people have their say. The EU is anti-democratic (look at the furore about the Greeks wanting a referendum). The sooner we are out, the better.
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i remember 13yrs of labour and us being sold down the river by blair and brown,no euro referendum for us there!.
blair said his greatest achievement during his time was signing the human rights bill,i bet it was too!,made millions for his mrs and the family bank account but costing us as we can no longer return terrorists,murderers,illegal immigrants baack to country of origin!.
cameron has only been in power 18 months so give him a fair chance to get it sorted!,you gave labour 13 years to ruin us!.
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Cameron is doing what Tories have always done vis-a-vis the EU, ie pander to the sceptics by saying the EU needs reform, they will ensure Britain’s interests come first etc while determinedly remaining inside and thus part of the ‘elite’.
As for ‘Who is David Cameron?’, it’s not that difficult. He’s what most products of the top public schools are – a networker, a PR man, a snake-oil salesman.
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things are going to get worse in britain,because david cam’moron is making them worse.
he serves israel’s best interests 1st & foremost before britains.
so,how can he be allowed to lead britain if he puts another country before our own.
he needs to go,he’s slowly destroying this country,just like tony israel serving blair.
we cannot have leaders that do not have the best interrest’s of this country as it’s 1st priority.
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‘Maybe he is scared that should he do so, he will be compared to Margaret Thatcher’
The fact that Thatcher waved her handbag around a lot at EU meetings makes people think she was tough on Europe, a heroic defender of British interests etc etc
In fact, she signed the Single European Act, often referred to as the most integrationist piece of European legislation yet crafted.
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Well if the economy keeps going the way Cameron and Osborne have made it we’ll soon be going to the IMF for a bailout so it might end up being money well spent.
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