So Where’s That Referendum Mr Cameron?
Before the General Election, you may recall that we were repeatedly assured, despite all evidence to the contrary, that David Cameron was actually really rather conservative and eurosceptic, and that he would show his true colours once in office.
Commentators within the right-wing media assured their readers that obtaining office was absolutely vital, and that in a press dominated by the BBC and the liberal-left then Mr Cameron was forced, hands behind his back, to kowtow to the liberal elite in order to not so much gain their support, but pacify their criticism.
Not to worry we were earnestly told. If the Conservatives portrayed themselves as the heirs to Blair and moved to the Left on a number of supposedly minor, largely irrelevant social and economic issues then the BBC and Guardian would be totally wrong-footed.
All that hugging of hoodies, understanding rather than punishing criminals, reneging on referendum pledges, capitulation to equality and diversity, dictatorial control of party candidate lists, promises to match Labour’s state spending plans, attacks on selection by academic ability, the protection of the bloated welfare state, sexual liberalism, ‘investing’ yet more of our money in the lumbering and inefficient NHS bureaucracy, further commitments to maintaining British troops in Afghanistan, and so on – it was all a front to deceive Parliament’s gatekeepers in the liberal media establishment into allowing the Tory party back into office.
Dave really didn’t mean it at all. Honest. Upon entering the door of Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister, his leftist visage would dissipate, and as if by a miracle, a great light would shine down upon him from the heavens and seconds later the real David Cameron would re-emerge to govern as a real, true-blooded Tory eurosceptic rather than under the very limp-wristed social democrat policies by which he had been elected.
Many of us didn’t believe it then, and of course even more are, if slowly, beginning to realise the truth now. David Cameron is not a conservative; he is a social democrat. He was elected as one and he will govern as one. Thus, the circle is now complete. The transfer from Blair and Brown to Cameron has seen the personnel change, but the policies have not – and they won’t change.
It therefore comes as little surprise that our Prime Minister has ruled out a Referendum vote on the proposed creation of a new EU Treasury, revealed today by the Daily Mail. That supposedly robust euroscepticism from our boy Dave is looking rather thin on the ground isn’t it? The Mail comments:
In a move likely to infuriate his party, Mr Cameron has already ruled out the prospect of giving the British public a say on the plans for a superstate. The Prime Minister will argue that a referendum on the proposals is unnecessary because the changes would only affect the countries in the single currency. But that stance was dismissed yesterday on the grounds that the plans will still have a profound effect on Britain by radically changing the nature of the EU, effectively shackling the UK to any new institutions. Tory MPs branded the likely changes ‘bigger than Maastricht’ – the treaty which led to the creation of the European Union and the single currency – and demanded a referendum.
In reality, Cameron’s referendum lock on transfers of power to the European Union was always a sham. When it was announced, the measure was used in an attempt to put the EU issue to bed, at a time when Mr Cameron was coming under sustained attack for his reneging on his commitment of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
The lock itself is utterly meaningless as the Government can simply deny that a transfer of power will occur, as many European states did with the Lisbon Treaty, and therefore deny a referendum. A more useful measure would be to ask the Government in what situations a transfer of power would exist to allow a referendum? I don’t think Mr Cameron and company would like that though.
Instead, while Dave continues to break his pledges and further increase the size of our national debt, the European Union lurches on with its usual attempts to further ever closer union in this latest ‘beneficial crisis’ in the Euro zone. Don’t expect our MPs and castrated Parliament to come riding to the rescue either. It’s mass economic default that lies ahead, or ever closer union (courtesy of Dave). Whichever way you look spells disaster on a grand scale.
