How many of us thought that Angle-terre would play second-fiddle to Germany 'forever'?
Posted on 04/04/2014 11:27:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The fragile Tory truce over Europe disintegrated last night after it emerged that more than 100 Conservative MPs and candidates are set to defy David Cameron at the General Election next year by vowing to leave the EU.
The Prime Minister has promised the Tory manifesto will spell out his pledge for a referendum by 2017 on Britain’s links with Europe after trying to win back key powers from Brussels.
But Tory rebels will go further and make their own personal manifesto vows to campaign to withdraw from the EU—regardless of any concessions by Brussels. …
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It’s hard to tell without a scorecard but does anybody know where on the American political spectrum the Tories sit?
How many of us thought that Angle-terre would play second-fiddle to Germany 'forever'?
Similar to the GOPe.
“Similar to the GOPe.”
By that, do you mean, talks a good ground game, but meets the liberals “half way?”
They should never have gotten involved in the EU boondoggle to begin with. The UK has never had a common language or culture with the rest of continental Europe, and trying to shoehorn themselves into a Union was foolish.
I get the impression they are not very conservative as we would understand it, but they are not fully on board with the transnational erasure of national sovereignty.
With monarchy, Ulster and an apparent cultural approval of conformity, I don’t think they are much like us at all. Apples and oranges to use the cliche.
Seeing that the NHS and some businesses are still “nationalized”, many would make great Democrats.
Yep.
Most of them are to the left of the GOP-e right now. David Cameron calls himself a “liberal conservative”, so he might be in “dummyrat” territory.
Neither has the rest of continental Europe.
To some degree, it’s not the notion of some kind of union, but its nature. Montesquieu would have called for tearing down the EU as it formed from its beginning, due to the fact that it was against liberty (having both executive and legislative power in the hands of an unelected body of magistrates).
“Liberal” doesn’t mean what Americans have been told to believe it means.
Liberal, but there are old guard elements of conservatism who were pissed about Cameron shoving through homosexual marriage.
It generally always did, especially if it posited itself against “conservative”. That kind of thinking is in churches too; you hear of a “liberal” church and you know what to expect.
Thank God somebody in Britain is standing up to the Globalists and their Soviet EU.
The British Conservative Party hasn’t had a real conservative in charge ever since they pushed the upstart Maggie Thatcher out the door.
But it must be said that Cameron is as low as they’ve ever gotten. He’s their equivalent to his bosom buddy, Barack Obama.
Thanks Olog-hai. Gaystapo oberfuehrer Cameron’s becoming a disaster for the Tories, but at present retains his firm grip on the reins. If this turns into a no-confidence vote, his coalition will fall, so he’ll either have to deal to patch something together, or be out, out, out!
Would be nice to see 100 Tories defect to the UKIP, wouldn't it?
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