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Cameron's climb-down: as I said in December, 'Dave's an EU pansy'

Tory MPs are accusing the Prime Minister of back-tracking after he agreed last night to the new European treaty he rejected just last month.

Reports tell us there is 'anger,' 'fury,' and a 'backlash' is coming from the backbenches.

Why? David Cameron only did exactly what anyone who has been watching him on Europe -- and that would be, er, me, but apparently no one on the Conservative backbenches -- knew he would do.

In the week before the December European summit, Cameron had written an article in the Times full of tough-guy talk directed at other European politicians. Example, one line: 'Our requirements will be practical and focused, but eurozone countries should not mistake this for any lack of steel.'

To which I replied: 'Memo to tough-talking Dave: trouble is, Brussels knows you're a pansy.'

I noted that 'I've been talking to a diplomat who assures me (as long as I don't quote him) that "the British are being much more conciliatory behind closed doors." I just bet they are.'

Which is why I can't figure out why the Tory MPs are acting surprised and 'angry.' Cameron is just doing what Cameron always does: he finds a way to wriggle around and capitulate to the EU and Nick Clegg -- because at heart he is no eurosceptic, and indeed at heart Cameron is no Conservative.

After the summit, at which Cameron's spin was that he 'vetoed' the new treaty, his backbenchers went into ecstasies, thinking their brave leader had defied the EU.

Not me. I wrote that 'Cameron is not as brave as he looks.'

'I'll ask you to note this before you decide he was brave in using the veto: by refusing to sign the plan for a new treaty Merkozy were demanding, Cameron got exactly what he needed at the summit.'

'He needed a way to arrive back home and say that Britain doesn't now need to have a referendum.'
'Which is exactly what he got in Brussels, an escape from a popular vote. By refusing to agree to the new eurzone "fiscal pact" treaty, he is -- for the moment -- safe from a referendum. Cameron's "courage" was Cameron dodging a bullet. Which is to say, a quick maoeuvre to his own political benefit.'

That was December. What happened last night in Brussels was that Cameron merely reverted to form -- his form being, a politician as much wedded to the European project as is Nick Clegg.

The only question is why so many Tory MPs were fooled in December into imagining he was anything else.
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Dave's dupes are humiliated AGAIN
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One of my chief joys these days is in saying ‘I told you so’, especially to the gullible dimwits who voted Tory ‘to get Gordon Brown out’ and now find that they have Gordon Brown still in, only he has acquired an Etonian accent and is smashing up our Armed Forces more effectively and permanently than Labour would ever have dared to do.

I told you so in December, when many people who should have known better swooned and gasped over Mr Cameron’s alleged ‘veto’ in  Brussels. I pointed out that there was no veto, and that  the French were actually rather pleased by what had happened.

I said that Neville Chamberlain was also praised by mobs of fools when he came back from Munich in 1938 with his worthless piece of paper.

Well, Mr Cameron has now admitted, with a shamefaced contortion of his impossibly smooth features, that his great stand against the EU was nothing of the sort. I expected that. He has done this again and again on the European issue.

But where is the anger and dismay among those who let themselves be swindled?

The only MP who gave Mr Cameron the sharp edge of his tongue when the climbdown was debated was Dennis Skinner, the last straggler of the great class war of the Eighties.

Tory MPs and Tory media, whose unwise joy and undeserved praise helped boost Mr Cameron in the polls at Christmas, buried the news or held their peace.

Well, if you let him treat you as a doormat over this, he will be sure to wipe his mucky boots on you many, many more times.
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Cameron shows true colours in Brussels

Monday, 30th January 2012
Monday, 30th January 2012 should be remembered as the day that David Cameron showed the British people his true colours.

Last month he was painted as the returning hero from Brussels when he supposedly used his veto over a new treaty.  There was no treaty text so technically a veto could not be used.

He also made it clear he would not allow EU institutions to be used to co-ordinate and administer any new pact.

How much can change in a few weeks.

His actions are no more than another example of eurosceptic posturing.

It is now clear that the Government has committed a U-turn on December's stance, with David Cameron now happy for various EU institutions to be used by the 26other member states for a new treaty.

The U-turn has even been confirmed by a leading Conservative MEP in Brussels.

Martin Callanan, leader of the Conservative MEPs, said: "There is no doubt that the government's position has altered since the December summit when they were insisting the Institutions could not be used."

Some might argue that this has been done to pacify his coalition partners, others might say that he is not as tough on the EU as he would like you to think.

One thing is for sure: you can not trust David Cameron or the Conservative Party to stand up to the EU.

His actions speak louder than words.

ukip