The Talking Clock: EUSSR: Call Me Dave's apparent candour (or crocodile tears) at PMQs

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Wednesday, 16 February 2011

EUSSR: Call Me Dave's apparent candour (or crocodile tears) at PMQs

Did you catch PMQs earlier today? If not, you must watch either via the BBC website or on BBC Parliament.

Call Me Dave is seemingly entering 'eu-sceptic' mode.

Firstly, prompted by Nicholas Soames (a man utterly loathed by this blogger for Diana related reasons), Call Me Dave blasted the never ending waves of regulations sweeping over this country from Brussels.

So much like Nigel Farage-lite was he, that we thought he was about to announce British withdrawal. No such luck. But we suspect Dave would like you to think he might do... some day. Twelfth of never.

In fact, to our untrained ear, it sounded as though Dave was calling out the EU, accusing it of being bad for British business.

Something that UKIP and Nigel Farage have been saying for years.

Then there was an attack on human rights legislation and calls for Britain to leave the remit of the ECHR.

There seems to be a EU-sceptic narrative flowing from Downing Street at the moment.

We hope that we get a response to some of this from one of the UKIP big hitters, prepared to hold the sword, but:

Daily Mail: Cameron's anger at Cable over failure to halt EU worker rules
Daily Mail: Euro judges 'will not have final say' on prisoner vote, vows Attorney General (as he hints of withdrawal from European court)
Daily Telegraph: George Osborne refuses to endorse Europe's accounts
Open Europe: Progress?

A handful of promises, ready to be deconstructed... what say you, Nigel?

See also:
UKIP: ECHR IS a Requirement of EU Membership (Stuart Agnew MEP)
IanPJ on Politics - ECHR & British Bill of Rights – a smokescreen

4 comments:

Woodsy4216 February 2011 16:26
He's just pissed off because they won't let him raid bank accounts to pay for the 'big society' rubbish. It'll pass (unfortunately).
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The Boiling Frog16 February 2011 17:01
Good spot TTC, the avalanche of anti-EU proclamations from the Tories might have something to do with the up and coming local elections I think. Anything to try to shore up their core vote.
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BJ16 February 2011 20:15
The most charitable thing I can say, TTC, is that Cameron is playing a dangerous game of bluff.

I am wondering if he is forcing ‘Europe’ down our throats in order to make us wake up – by us I mean the rest of the seemingly brain-dead population.

Most of the EU dirty work has been done by the Common Purpose corrupted NGOs that have insinuated themselves between our councils and the people – it is these unwanted bureaucracies that Pickles is now quietly sorting out.

The ‘reddest’ of Labour councils are forcing the cuts onto the real needy in an attempt to embarrass Cameron, but it is this evil tier of NGO corruption that has to be destroyed. Cut these treacherous roots and the EU monster will start to shrink.

I’m no fan of Cameron but if he succeeds in this he will deserve everybody’s praise. He may be appearing to be docile in his dealings with the EU institutions but it seems that he is hacking at the EU’s quisling tentacles.

Or am I clutching at straws?
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The Talking Clock17 February 2011 00:20
We may find out what Nigel has to say tomorrow (Thursday)... just found out he's on Question Time.

That'll be nice for him, surrounded by extremist lefties for an evening...
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