Posted on 12/10/2011 4:45:11 AM PST by iowamark
DAVID Cameron has blasted the bully-boys of Europe with a sensational Winston Churchill-style "Up Yours".
The PM vetoed a new treaty and kept Britain out of a dodgy deal to save the euro.
But his bulldog spirit left the nation facing an unknown future and risking an EU backlash.
The PM last night defended his historic veto of an EU deal intended to save the euro — despite infuriating pro-Europeans.
Jubilant Tory MPs hailed his decision as a massive step towards Britain's EXIT from the European Union.
His stand in Brussels was the first time a British Prime Minister has ever vetoed an EU treaty.
Defiant Mr Cameron insisted he was RIGHT, as the deal threatened the City of London financial hub.
He said: "We were offered a treaty that didn't have proper safeguards for Britain and I decided it was not right to sign it."
But EU chiefs turned on him last night for daring to stand up for Britain. And the Coalition was rocked when Nick Clegg warned Britain could end up marginalised in a two-speed Europe.
One Brussels insider warned: "This is going to cost the UK dearly. They have antagonised everyone."
The PM stuck to his guns during ten hours of bruising negotiations in which he faced intense pressure from French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Cameron had a furious show-down with Mr Sarkozy in the early hours of yesterday morning.
There were even reports that the fuming Frenchman had to be "restrained" at one point.
One French official blasted the PM for demanding concessions but offering nothing in return.
He likened Mr Cameron to "a man who wants to go to a wife-swapping party without taking his own wife".
Mrs Merkel complained: "I really don't believe Mr Cameron was ever really with us at the table."
Last night the EU's other 26 countries were set to press ahead with their own treaty — leaving Britain on the outside. They agreed new rules on tax and spending by eurozone countries and tougher sanctions to back them up.
The PM insisted Britain will keep its influence in the corridors of powers and remain a member of the EU. He said: "Membership is in our interests."
Earlier Mr Sarkozy had blamed Britain's "unacceptable" demands for torpedoing the treaty. At one point during a meeting of leaders yesterday, the French president appeared to "blank" Mr Cameron...
"DON'T be fooled. David Cameron is no Winston Churchill, and this was not his D-Day.
That victory cigar he tried to chomp on the Eurostar choked him, and the bowler hat and dickie didn't fit.
Let's be honest, the only reason our petrified PM pulled the veto was because he had to.
Eurosceptic Tory ministers and MPs made it clear they wouldn't allow the stitch-up treaty through the Commons.
They would have brought down Desperate Dave before giving way over their referendum call.
Cameron won, but he also lost too, because he came home without any safeguards for the City at all.
With the EU now riddled with paper-thin promises, indecision and rancour, we may be even further away from a euro solution.
Rejoice? Hardly.""
Look at the reason why Cameron voted no. He wanted guarantees for London’s financial industry. This is no defence of competition and capitalism.
Maybe not, but it is a step forward for Britain exiting the EU, hopefully. I don’t want Britain to have any more part in this tyrannical project...
this may sound kooky but whats going on in europe right now is the kind of stuff thats started wars in the past
Not kooky at all.
It is a defense of sovereignty.
” Let’s be honest,the only reason our petrified PM pulled the veto was because he had to.”
Well, that is how democracy is supposed to work when 66% of hour people want out of the EU completely. Democracy doesnt entail going against your people to sign treaties that trash your constitution.
“He likened Mr Cameron to “a man who wants to go to a wife-swapping party without taking his own wife”. “
Uhhhmmmm......wow.
This is, after all, the same guy who told folks wanting a referendum to go urinate up a rope.
He likened Mr Cameron to “a man who wants to go to a wife-swapping party without taking his own wife”.
Live it to the French to come up with an analogy like THAT.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Never thought I would see the day when Jews are openly persecuted, there is a world wide depression, and Europe is close to war.
As I understand it he wanted a guarantee that financial transactions would not be subject to a new tax. Sounds like a free marketer to me. He should have asked for an additional tax on agricultural products, including wine and cheese, and then seen who didn't bring their wife to the swingers party.
We have seen France and Britain vs Germany: WW2, WW1
We have seen Britain and Germany vs France: Napoleonic Wars, 7 Years’ War, and the War of the Spanish Succesion
We haven’t had France and Germany vs Britain yet
Not sure about all the economics or politics of this, but I wouldn’t touch the EU with a 10 foot Pole.
It’s only fair for the Germans to have the French.
We had them the last two times
Why should Sterling be taxed to prop up the Euro?
“It’s only fair for the Germans to have the French. We had them the last two times.”
“I would rather have the Germans in front of me than the French behind me” - General George Patton
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