David Cameron has been pulled in all manner of directions by Andrew Marr on the question of Europe. After Marr's poor question to Brown last weekend it was only fair that he went in more aggressively on the Tory leader that he ordinarily would have. Thankfully, he did.
Cameron repeated his line that he wanted a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty even though Britain has already ratified the Treaty and the only two who haven't, Poland and Czech Republic, will ratify this week and before Christmas respectively.
The Tory leader repeated the philosophy of this line that is in today's Independent:
"There are still two other countries in Europe yet to ratify. I don't want to do anything or say anything that prejudices the outcome in those countries; you can only have one policy at once so I am pushing for that referendum and that will not change."
I don't understand this philosophy. Why would David Cameron telling us if his Government would hold a referendum on the wider question of EU membership prejudice the outcome of another country's referendum? And even if it did prejudice it, who cares?
Much like Cameron's later point (on his far(ish)-right EU bloc) that he wants to be 'a friendly neighbour' of the German CDU and the other mainstream centre-right parties that are setting the rate of change in Europe, it all smacks of not wanting to tread on anyone's toes. And that's not the kind of thinking that your average Tory tends to like too much.
Is Cameron in danger of kicking over his well-balanced political cart by keeping the pro-EU lefties onside and not pushing too hard for what his Euro-sceptic party membership wants?
When the Czech Republic ratifies the Lisbon Treaty, as they surely will do before Christmas, Cameron will have to decisively address this question of EU membership and no longer put it off for a later day. I think he would have been better off coming out today with a clear, unambiguous statement of what approach he will take with regard to Lisbon and Europe.
The early exchanges on Europe ended with the following lines which I reckon summed up Cameron's lamentable position very well:
Cameron: "I could not have explained it more clearly"
Marr: "Well, that is, with respect, part of the problem"
Cameron repeated his line that he wanted a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty even though Britain has already ratified the Treaty and the only two who haven't, Poland and Czech Republic, will ratify this week and before Christmas respectively.
The Tory leader repeated the philosophy of this line that is in today's Independent:
"There are still two other countries in Europe yet to ratify. I don't want to do anything or say anything that prejudices the outcome in those countries; you can only have one policy at once so I am pushing for that referendum and that will not change."
I don't understand this philosophy. Why would David Cameron telling us if his Government would hold a referendum on the wider question of EU membership prejudice the outcome of another country's referendum? And even if it did prejudice it, who cares?
Much like Cameron's later point (on his far(ish)-right EU bloc) that he wants to be 'a friendly neighbour' of the German CDU and the other mainstream centre-right parties that are setting the rate of change in Europe, it all smacks of not wanting to tread on anyone's toes. And that's not the kind of thinking that your average Tory tends to like too much.
Is Cameron in danger of kicking over his well-balanced political cart by keeping the pro-EU lefties onside and not pushing too hard for what his Euro-sceptic party membership wants?
When the Czech Republic ratifies the Lisbon Treaty, as they surely will do before Christmas, Cameron will have to decisively address this question of EU membership and no longer put it off for a later day. I think he would have been better off coming out today with a clear, unambiguous statement of what approach he will take with regard to Lisbon and Europe.
The early exchanges on Europe ended with the following lines which I reckon summed up Cameron's lamentable position very well:
Cameron: "I could not have explained it more clearly"
Marr: "Well, that is, with respect, part of the problem"
3 comments:
I thought Marr was struggling to keep his cool in this one, he was visibly flustered and confused in some of his questioning.
Hopefully we'll here more about Tory proposals in the coming days, we sure as hell aren't going to hear any details from Labour.
Cameron was right that brown hardly tackled the deficit in his speech at brighton, choosing instead to hog lots of other announcements.
I predict a Tory landslide in England.
Fair points Wardog, and I agree that the question of Europe won't get in the way of Cameron romping home next year.
But the Tories look pretty ridiculous in not saying what they would do in the highly probable situation where the Lisbon Treaty is ratified before they come into power.
Cameron talks a good game about a new style of Politics, but he's clearly not backing it up with action.
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