LMAO!!
Posted on 12/12/2011 11:06:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Britain last night faced a revenge attack for David Cameron’s EU snub when a senior Brussels bureaucrat promised a new deluge of damaging red tape on UK business.
European economics commissioner Olli Rehn insisted that the EU could override the Prime Minister’s veto to slap more regulation on the City of London.
And he vowed that Brussels would ignore Mr. Cameron’s bid to protect British finance and British jobs.
Finnish-born Mr. Rehn said: “If this move was intended to prevent bankers and financial corporations in the City from being regulated, that is not going to happen. We must all draw lessons from the financial crisis and that goes for the financial sector as well.”
In a further threat, the commissioner added: “The UK’s excessive deficit and debt will be the subject of surveillance like other member states, even if the enforcement mechanism mostly applies to the euro-area member states.”
His remarks were being seen last night as the opening salvo in a new offensive by Brussels chiefs to isolate and bully Britain as punishment for Mr. Cameron’s defiant stand against a further EU power grab. …
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Great! The EU is going to start a trade war.
I predict this will backfire Big Time. The EUnuchs are grossly underestimating the Brit Tories’ resolve. Poland, the Czechs, and Hungary will stand with the Brits against the Brussels sproutheads; the EU will soon collapse.
The comments following the article are priceless. Reminds me of how our colonists reacted to the heavy handed threats from king George.
This ain’t going to end well for the EU.
British Tories resolves!?! LOL! Cameron may well have done the right thing on this occasion, but this is a blip in an otherwise less than stellar Tory record in giving in to the EU on every other major occasion.
As for Poland, the Czechs, Hungary etc they might have shared similar sentiments to Britain, but when it came down to it they folded faster than Flash Gorden on laundry day when they signed up for this BS...
You just have to wonder how long the UK is going to go along with the jerks in Brussels before getting out of the treaty which yields their rights as a country to a bunch of Socialists from places like Finland.
Oh yeah, and if Cameron and the Tories had any real resolve, they’d have given us a referendum on whether to stay in the EU or not. As it happened, they wouldn’t even give us a referendum on whether to accept the EU Const- sorry Lisbon ‘Treaty’...
Somehow I have to believe the UK is going to have the last laugh...
And they would do it about now...
The end game here may be the EU deposing Cameron like they did Berlesconi in Italy.
I wish that stinking EU would hurry up and implode.
I wish they would try, such a naked usurpation of national sovereignty might be acceptable in intrinsically pro-European countries like Italy and Greece, but Britain has always been Eurosceptically inclined and it would be the short, sharp shock the British people needed to wake them up to the danger of the EU. Up until now the British Frog has been put into a cold EU pot and boiled slowly...
LMAO!!
LOL thats funny.
The EUSSR is an epic failure...
It is all a bluff. What are they going to do, embargo UK goods and cut off their consumer’s revenue? I don’t think so. Funny thing is lately I have been scrutinizing where things are made and I now go out of my way to by UK goods where possible and not buy German goods. Unfortunately, the only impact I have been able to make is in beer selection and in a baby stroller.
“As it happened, they wouldn’t even give us a referendum on whether to accept the EU Const- sorry Lisbon ‘Treaty’...”
What was the point of having a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty after Brown had already scuttled off and signed it?
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