David Cameron needs clear strategy to win back EU powers, warns former Thatcher aide Sir Bernard Ingham DAVID Cameron will fail to bring back significant powers from Brussels without a clear strategy for negotiating with other European leaders, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher warned. Sir Bernard Ingham, who was the Iron Ladys press secretary in Downing Street, sounded the alarm about the Prime Ministers drive to win a new EU membership deal. He feared that any attempt to loosen Britains ties with Brussels will be defeated by the forces of reaction in the country determined to defend the status quo. Sir Bernards warning came in the foreword to a new pamphlet setting out ideas for the Tories to respond to the electoral threat from the UK Independence Party. The new handbook for salvaging the Euro-sceptic credentials of the Conservative Party written by Tory activist Lee Rotherham is being published tomorrow to coincide with two by-elections where Ukip is expected to surge. Sir Bernard wrote: The Conservatives need a clear strategyand - if they are to achieve anything by 2017 - manifest determination backed up by strictly factual expositions of the various options. Without these essentials, the British forces of reaction, as I describe them, that are deeply embedded in the body politic will make hay. They will prey on the fear of the unknown and where they cannot intimidate us into remaining in a largely unreformed EU will marvellously fudge the outcome of any negotiation. He added: I have some experience of Europe after attending 31 consecutive European Councils as the British spokesman. That background tells me that in the ordinary run of things we can expect very little from any renegotiation before an in-out referendum promised by the Conservatives before the end of 2017. This is all the more reason why we should know in some detail from the Conservatives as, currently, the only party likely to give the public a say on the matter, what they are aiming for. Sir Bernard said his experience in European diplomacy had proved to him that senior Eurocrats were determined to destroy nation states and build a united states of Europe. The purpose of electing a government is for it to govern. It is manifestly clear that no elected British government is now in control of its own house, Sir Bernard wrote. Far too much governance has been conceded over the years to an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels. This partly explains the low turn outs at British elections. Worse still - and no matter how much the Europhiles deny it - the EUs objective is to create a United States of Europe. Nothing less can explain the extraordinary determination to crucify the southern half of Europe on the cross of the single currency. In short, Europe, as currently conceived, is against the British national interest and is failing millions of young people on the continent whose governments are caught in the euro straightjacket.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:36:05 +0000
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