Tory Eurorealism/Euroscepticism? SCAM TIME Again!

The evolution of the Conservative Party's Eurorealism/Euroscepticism continues. In his January 2013 Bloomberg speech, David Cameron repudiated the 'ever closer union' phrase in the 1957 Treaty of Rome and committed a re-elected Conservative Party to a renegotiation on the UK's position in the European Union. But he still insisted, apparently regardless of what might come from the renegotiation, that he would campaign 'heart and soul' for the UK to remain in the EU. This created the rather obvious problem that he intended to enter the negotiations without a meaningful bargaining position. If his default position was for the UK to stay in the EU, our so-called 'partners' had no reason to offer anything in a renegotiation. The status quo would just carry on. Prof. Tim Congdon.