A Compromise or A Prize!?

Posted 30 Oct 2010 by Walaa Idris

I am not sure when the intention and the promise was to cut or freeze the 6% increase the EU is asking for, but give them 2.9% for next year’s budget can be considered a compromise or success. It’s a deal I am sure our Prime Minster fought to achieve, but still it gives the EU too much money at a time when many in the UK had to give up and go without a lot.

It has been said by many in a number of occasions before, but it needs to be said again – Europe needs to wake up and get real, if in the UK we are cutting everything to the bare minimum, then the EU budget must follow suit, failing that then at least a freeze for the coming years!

However, and on a personal note, what disappointed me in this scenario is that I know Cameron is very capable of negotiating a better deal specially as this 2.9% is not set on stone and can be unpicked before it is finalized.

Well, next comes the Lisbon treaty modification, could there be our salvation!?

3 comment(s)

Brian Moylan

Brian Moylan
30 Oct, 12:27

He did nothing!
It was sorted in August.
Treaty modification.. cast-iron guarantee.
Trying to talk it up as if he matters.

Gawain Towler

Gawain Towler
30 Oct, 12:41

It isn’t Europe that needs to wake up and get real. It is the massed ranks of Tories that watch what happened over the last few days and write such deluded stuff as this,

“I am not sure when the intention and the promise was to cut or freeze the 6% increase the EU is asking for, but give them 2.9% for next year’s budget can be considered a compromise or success.”

You know that it wasn’t good enough by what you write afterwards, but you cannot help yourself in falling for Cameron’s spin. You so desperately want him to be the man you thought he was.

And the Treaty change. He has already said, “Read his lips” that there will be no need for a referendum. So how could that be our salvation.

It must hurt being so disappointed, but until you wake up to the deception that is being played out against you then nothing will ever change.

Brian Moylan

Brian Moylan
30 Oct, 20:29

“Mr Cameron’s defiance was pure theatre”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8098970/David-Cameron-went-to-Brussels-to-bang-the-wrong-table.html

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