Whatever Cameron’s motives he has left Britain horribly isolated
BRITAIN’S self-immolation beggars belief. The government’s clumsy attempt to extract concessions from eurozone countries in their time of need has set off a chain reaction which could undermine Britain’s interests and even drive it out of the European Union.
It’s not clear what David Cameron thought he was doing at the European summit in the early hours of December 9 when he demanded vetoes on financial regulation in the EU. Was the prime minister asking for something he knew was unacceptable so that he could return to Britain and parade as a hero in front of the eurosceptics in his Conservative party? Or did he just vastly overestimate his negotiating position, thinking that the eurozone countries were so desperate to save their single currency that he could bounce them into accepting the British demands by presenting them with a take-it-or-leave-it offer in the middle of the night? If it was the former, Cameron was cynically putting his personal interests above those of the nation; if the latter, he was just extraordinarily inept.
