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"Mr President, my colleague Anneliese Dodds has already spoken eloquently of what Mr Cameron is trying to do at the moment, as he scuttles around Europe placing demands for so-called reform on the table, trying to find a route between the trivial and the impossible.
However, the right wing of his party is trying to push him into making demands that are not in the British national interest, nor in the European interest, but are highly partisan Conservative policies that they wish him to impose on the rest of Europe. He will only succeed, if he goes down that route, by two rounds of blackmail. In round one he says to other EU countries, ‘Accept these changes or we are off, and I really mean it’; and then in round two, if he gets those changes, he says to the British people, ‘You have a choice between what I have negotiated or leaving Europe’. It is Cameron’s Europe or no Europe, and at that point he will tell the British people to stay in and accept his terms.
I do hope that there are still some pro-European Conservatives who dare raise their head above the parapet and argue against him in their own party to make sure that this does not happen."@en1
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