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Anthony Barnett

The mood of Parliament - 0 views

  • Conservative MPs did not want to vote for a referendum on the Alternative Vote, a system they dislike. Many did not want a reduction in the number of MPs and the boundary changes that entails so soon after winning their seats for the first time. They did not want to support the increased External Action Service of the EU or the expanded EU budget. They did not like the 5 year Parliament  bill, the increase in the EU and Overseas Aid budgets nor some of the defence cuts.
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    Conservative MPs did not want to vote for a referendum on the Alternative Vote, a system they dislike. Many did not want a reduction in the number of MPs and the boundary changes that entails so soon after winning their seats for the first time. They did not want to support the increased External Action Service of the EU or the expanded EU budget. They did not like the 5 year Parliament bill, the increase in the EU and Overseas Aid budgets nor some of the defence cuts.
Anthony Barnett

EUobserver.com / Institutional Affairs / Poland: UK no longer a leading EU country - 0 views

  • "Cameron said very clearly: 'We're not interested in a political union, we want to take care of our own interests and retreat to our island.' But the rest of the continent does want political union because it's indispensible to save the euro and to protect our place on the world arena," Sikorski said. "Great Britain can retreat to its island. But it's in our [Poland's] interest to permanently safeguard our membership in the Latin civilisation, so we need tighter ties with the rest of Europe, not looser ones," he added.
Anthony Barnett

Interview on Britain and Europe with Former Prime Minister Tony Blair - SPIEGEL ONLINE - 0 views

  • The rationale for Europe in the 21st century is stronger than it has ever been. It is essentially about power, not about peace anymore.
  • here is a very strong and very vocal minority however. Basically, it's an old fashioned form of nationalism. That's what the UK Independence Party is, and it carries with it a very old fashioned set of attitudes and arguments.
Anthony Barnett

David Cameron leaves us with a 'Tantric' time bomb, says David Miliband - Telegraph - 0 views

  • Option three is pragmatic and careful (quite Tory, really): if major changes emerge in Europe in the next five years that shift the balance of power, then a referendum comes on to the agenda. If not, it doesn’t. That is the course that the party leadership has taken, and quite right they are, too.
Tom Griffin

Tories and UUP endorse EU and British elections pact - The Irish Times - Sat, Nov 22, 2008 - 0 views

  • "Through this pact, he has linked his party to identity politics and tribal headcounts rather than dealing with the issues and building a modern, shared society," Dr Farry said. "The Conservatives are now signed up to a message that what matters above all else is that unionists are returned in elections irrespective of the issues."
Anthony Barnett

Lib Dems want to destroy Parliament and replace it with rule by judges | Mail Online - 0 views

  • Before the Election, David Cameron promised a Sovereignty Bill. In his speech entitled Giving Power Back To The People he said: ‘As we have no written constitution .  .  . we have no explicit legal guarantee that the last word on our laws stays in Britain .  .  . so, as well as making sure that further power cannot be handed to the EU without a referendum, we will also introduce a new law, in the form of a United Kingdom Sovereignty Bill, to make it clear that ultimate authority stays in this country, in our Parliament
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