European Union vote pressure heaped on Prime Minister
LABOUR and the Liberal Democrats turned up the heat on David Cameron tonight as he struggled to stop his party tearing itself apart over Europe.
With just over a week until the Prime Minister's crunch speech on Britain and the EU, Ed Miliband insisted it would be "wrong" to promise a referendum, and accused Mr Cameron of "sleepwalking us towards the exit door".
Meanwhile, Lib Dem Cabinet minister Danny Alexander warned that the consequences of leaving the grouping were so drastic that no responsible politician would contemplate it.
The interventions came as Tory Europhiles launched a fightback against demands for an in-out referendum.
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Cabinet minister Ken Clarke is to share a platform with Labour peer Lord Mandelson later this month to stress the benefits of remaining in the union.
The pair are launching a new cross-party organisation, the Centre for British Influence through Europe (CBIE), to make the "patriotic" case for British engagement. Around 20 Tory MPs have also apparently signed a letter, due to be published this week, warning of "massive damage" if the UK leaves the EU. Rumours are swirling that Downing Street has given tacit approval to efforts to highlight the dangers of an exit.
In an unusual intervention last week, senior US diplomat Philip Gordon openly stated that America wanted Britain to remain in the EU. Prominent business figures including Sir Richard Branson and PR guru Roland Rudd have also spoken out about the potentially dire consequences of severing ties.




Comments
by HermesThelema
Monday, January 14 2013, 7:53PM
“Stop the flipping nonsense. There is no benefit to the British Prime Minister being here. As we can all see at a time when the world looks to the British Government to lead by example, as ever before, we see bullied bullion lies to fear. What type of political machine bullies via a process of pain its own Prime Minister into making cuts which lead to more expense and calls in cull costly changes which fail in fall. Thank you for your donation, Freemasonry, you have no business being here. Thank you for your science fiction story, Church of Scientology, you have no reason to be here. I love you all the same. Zero. Zero. Zero.”
by cassiebiker
Monday, January 14 2013, 2:59PM
“Rather than make too many wild predictions, let's first look at recent history and then the present time.
(as an aid to the present and public opinion, look at every national newspaper site)
Under Blair we began the unpleasant journey with the opening of our borders and then the selling off of the gold by Brown plus lots of other issues.
They then left government and are now multi-millionaires and still today we see pictures of Blair with that smile on his face as he collects his rewards for dropping us right into it.
Enter Cameron and Clegg. Austerity measures, penalising the poor and the middle classes and refusing to listen to the electorate on the issues of Europe and immigration.
Today:
UKIP has just overtaken the Tories in the opinion polls and the country is screaming for us to leave the EU. We are faced with a huge number of Bulgarian and Romanian people stampeding through our unregulated borders in 12 months time but the next GE is still two and a half years away. In front of everybody, Cameron is twitching, ducking and diving and is struggling to figure out how to keep on top of the issue until at least December when there is the potential for enough extra immigrants to break Britain's back and its people's spirits.
He knows the mess he has kept us in will result in him not winning the next GE but that doesn't seem to be a priority which is strange for a politician.
Then of course the penny drops and some of us begin to see that this is all part of an ongoing plan set in place by Europe.
David Cameron does not want to win the next GE. Why would he? His brief from Europe is to keep stalling things like referendums while disabling the British public with more swinging cuts in their incomes, basically grinding us down to break our spirits until this little island has indeed been filled to over capacity and these dodgy characters in Europe have us all exactly where they want us.
Just like Blair, Cameron must be on the payroll and set to receive £millions when he walks away from office. Why would he want to even remain in politics when he can live in superior luxury anywhere in the world.
Am I daft to think that? After all, Blair did it, Brown continued it and were rewarded handsomely and Cameron is severely risking his political career at best with the possibility of street riots or even to having his name on a hit man's bullet.
Somehow, Judas is not a strong enough word, he only got paid 30 pieces of silver compared to what Blair, Cameron and Clegg must be on.”
by cornishexile
Monday, January 14 2013, 1:34PM
“The PM is obviously terrified of what the public will say! Politicians today cannot abide by democracy!”
by OutsideView
Monday, January 14 2013, 11:02AM
“"There seem to misconceptions half-truths and downright lies regarding UK EU membership.
What is needed is for the politicians et al to come forward with the truth for a change in order for one to come to an informed decision and promote proper debate.
Our local politicians are invited to explain where they stand on the issue and the reasons why.
There will of course always be vested interest groups for and against to suit their own agendas but they should come out into the open and put forward their case for all to see."
Whether in our out, it should however be what is in the best interests of the country as a whole and not merely the self-interest of the politicians.”