Cameron’s flawed strategy there
for all to see
The Prime Minister’s overwhelming enthusiasm to keep Britain in the EU was on
full display at the CBI conference, argues Nigel Farage, who says that the
general public must by now see right through the Tory party’s desperate attempts
to win back Eurosceptic voters.
David Cameron told the CBI conference that
support for staying in the European Union is ‘wafer thin’ but argued that there
was significant backing for his attempt to renegotiate powers. He also told
business leaders that he could win the argument for staying in the
EU.
“How can the Prime Minister try to suggest to the general public that he is going to play hardball with Brussels and claw back actual, credible powers to Britain when he very publically promises he wants to keep Britain in the EU? Why would any of the other 27 leaders or any of the power brokers of the EU be concerned for one minute that they should try to meet his demands when he is so dewy-eyed over the European project? They can see it for what it is. He says one thing to the public, and another to them. He changes his tune depending on his audience.
“The Commission President was right when he said that only UKIP were the real Eurosceptics and that the Conservatives were just fakes, saying we would win more support in the 2014 European elections from an increasingly unhappy British public. He also pointed out that there could be no real repatriation of powers without a treaty change, and that that option was not on the table and never would be.
“How can the Prime Minister try to suggest to the general public that he is going to play hardball with Brussels and claw back actual, credible powers to Britain when he very publically promises he wants to keep Britain in the EU? Why would any of the other 27 leaders or any of the power brokers of the EU be concerned for one minute that they should try to meet his demands when he is so dewy-eyed over the European project? They can see it for what it is. He says one thing to the public, and another to them. He changes his tune depending on his audience.
“The Commission President was right when he said that only UKIP were the real Eurosceptics and that the Conservatives were just fakes, saying we would win more support in the 2014 European elections from an increasingly unhappy British public. He also pointed out that there could be no real repatriation of powers without a treaty change, and that that option was not on the table and never would be.
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