My own view is that some steam has been allowed to escape from the pressure cooker, but it is still on the stove and the temperature is still high. The need for vigilance is, if anything, greater than before.
Cameron made the right move. However,
- we don't really know what he's cooking,
- the europhiles will be plotting behind closed doors and
- Trojan Horses will abound.
Otherwise, we'll be using the same federalist ingredients in the hope of baking a [very different] EU-freedom cake!
Nigel Farage says:
"We're still members of the union, we're still bound by its legislation and yet, what's perfectly clear, is that henceforth, we will have no influence whatsoever. And actually, what I'm getting in the hall today, from journalists from all over Europe, is that Britain is now despised. So I think what will happen now, back in the United Kingdom, is that we're about to launch into a very big national debate about to whether we should be members of this union at all."
Opinions:
- Cameron’s gamble: Britain ‘isolated’ in Europe, or independent? - Frank Fisher
- Europe's idiots and a flim-flam treaty - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
- Right now, 'isolated' is a damn good thing for Britain to be - Charles Crawford
- Thanks for the mention, Boris! - Roger Helmer ("The €uro is a Bankruptcy Machine")
- Euro still headed for collapse - Raedwald
- What David Cameron really thinks of Nicolas Sarkozy - Benedict Brogan (Did the French corner the UK into vetoing the treaty as a first step to UK exit?)
- A huge coup de théâtre - Richard North, EU Referendum
- David Cameron stands by his country – now let's get the deal Britain wants - Daniel Hannan
- I have in my hand a piece of paper... - Leg-Iron
- Britain and isolation - Fraser Nelson
- Eurozone leaders deluded if they think this 'sticking plaster' treaty can solve the debt crisis - Liam Halligan
- EU treaty: Britain now faces a Europe that is becoming hostile - Bruno Waterfield
- Ten myths about Cameron’s EU veto - Mats Persson, Spectator
- Authors of our own grief - Richard North, EU Referendum (Excellent read!)
- Never, in the history of this island, has the fact that Belgium is 30 miles away mattered less - Douglas Carswell, Sunday Mail
- Sir Humphrey will already be fighting this with every fibre of his being - Daniel Hannan, Sunday Mail
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EU 2.0? With all the treaties and name changes - EC, EEC, etc - I'd have said we're already at a much later version. Probably 8 or 9 point something. But when the Euro finally falls apart there will be talk of a new version EU in order that there can be a Euro 2.0, and what they will say is that they know where the Euro went wrong. They'll say that it was a mistake to create a currency union to pave the way for political union as it was putting the cart before the horse, and that it's become clear that political union is needed first for the second go at currency union to be successful.
Fausty, I disagree, I don't think Cameron did the right thing 'cos he was only interested in two things - his own position and avoiding a referendum.
I think AE has a good point - hopefully though it will be without the UK.
In this regard I can but use the old strikers mantra: Out Out Out!
I'd go along with that, AE.
Not for one minute do I believe that Cameron did "the right thing" for the right reasons, Mr W. Nevertheless, he has put us on a trajectory of which we can take advantage. Although right now, the outcome can swing in any direction.
Yesterday's shell-shock is dissipating as the implications and dangers become clearer.
Yep. Out is the only way forward.
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