Prime Minister David Cameron has told us repeatedly that Britain is better off remaining in a reformed European Union.
He gives the impression that the EU has in some way actually been reformed. This is not the case. Moreover, it is highly unlikely to be reformed in any substantial way.
He talks eloquently about Britain’s ‘values’, the most important of which is democracy. Yet he is enthusiastic about tying his country permanently to what is essentially an undemocratic entity.
The EU has failed miserably in the face of major threats to Europe, for example, in its approach to the Ukraine problem posed by Russia, and its ‘strategy’ to tackle the immigration crisis is a worrying one.
It is hard to get a television image out of my head. It is of Mr Cameron, the British Prime Minister, standing alongside M. Hollande while the French President was warning Britain with ‘consequences’ if Brexit occurred.
But then, it obviously did not disturb M. Cameron. He would have been ‘chillaxed’ about M. Hollande’s apparent threat. After all, he is ever busy trying to frighten his fellow Britons.
Roy Fry
Kendal
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