Tory leader David Cameron’s worst nightmare (apart from losing the election of course) is another outbreak of civil warfare in the Tory party over Europe; the issue that bedevilled John Major and played a large part in the Tories’ exclusion from office for 12 years (and counting).
So he says that he still wants a referendum in the UK over the European constititution, even though the Irish, at the second time of asking have overwhelmingly endorsed it and it’s set to become a reality. But if Cameron calls this, as prime minister, who is he going to support?
Will he, as GB PM, really oppose peaceful co-existence with France, Germany, Spain and so on?
The Tories’ position is a joke and Cameron, usually so sure-footed, is largely to blame, partly by allying the Tories in the European Parliament with a bunch of monster raving loony parties.
The Tories have also let it be known that they’ll oppose the coronation of Tony Blair as European president. Well you can see why they’d say that but they seem to mean it. Who do they really want? Gordon Brown?
Cameron needs to put his thinking cap on and begin to be a sensible European (which we have to be, like or or not).