BBC’s ‘Hard Talk’ – Three Europhiliac Easy Riders!
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Just watching BBC’s World Service, ‘Hard Talk’ – all about the referendum promised by Cast-Iron Cameron on whether to keep the UK within the EUSSR.
- Three distinguished participants .Malcolm Rifkind, Tory pro-EUSSR, Pat McFadden, Labour pro-EUSSR, Menzies Campbell, LibDem pro-EUSSR.
- I listened to Rifkind gloatingly calculate how whatever Cameron brings back as a deal will get approved, because the other in-crowd parties will back him against the Tory patriot dissenters.
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- Not a single solitary voice on the panel to be seen or heard.
- Sure and it’s a wonderful balance the mandarins of Broadcasting House manage to achieve when they really, really try!
Edward Spalton is discussing. 
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Edward Spalton 22:48 on May 12, 2015 Permalink |
In every opinion poll I have ever seen, people have opted to stay in a “renegotiated” EU.
It worked for Mr Wilson and this is what Mr. Cameron is banking on.
So the “out” campaign will have to be exceedingly clever, especially as it is likely to be outspent by a very large factor.
In the second half of 2017 the UK will hold the rotating presidency of the EU and so be in a very strong position to manipulate the news media and show how “Britain is leading in Europe”. He will be using the simplified procedure in article 48 of the Lisbon treaty – the only way to get an agreement within Cameron’s time frame but the member states have to agree unanimously.
My bet is that the deal is already worked out – and so are the scripts and choreography for some very spectacular rows along the way – just to show how Dave is “battling for Britain” . The deal will be rather more convincing than Mr Wilson’s- glossy and much better presented and I have one or two ideas about what it will be. That is the result of dealing with a rule-bound organisation like the EU. It reminds me of
“There was a young man who said “Damn”.
“It appears to me that I am,
A creature that moves,
In predestinate grooves,
Not only a bus, but a tram”.
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