David Cameron in broken promise shocka!!!
I V Stalin
14-07-2006, 01:21
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5175708.stm
Surprise, surprise.
In the Tory leadership campaign, David Cameron promised to split from the EPP as soon as he became Tory leader. Over 6 months after he becomes leader, he announces that the split will happen in three years time, and that
any [Tory candidates] who attempted to leave [the EPP before 2009] would not be picked as Tory candidates for re-election in 2009.
Got to love a politician who sticks to his promises, no?
I V Stalin
14-07-2006, 02:10
Bump. Should probably have posted this when some Brits were on...
Yeah, read about this today.
Doesn't bother me in the slightest.
He's a politician, therefore I never expected him to stick to his word in any way.
Blood has been shed
14-07-2006, 12:37
Seems a silly policy anyway. I don't particuarly favour madssive EU intergration but I can't see a reason why Cameron would be so hostile to the EU.
BogMarsh
14-07-2006, 12:39
Our Federal (EU)Union - it must be preserved!
If Cameron breaks a promise to do a wicked and fell thing, then more power to him.
Philosopy
14-07-2006, 12:45
You can't blame him. He really walked into a minefield with that policy - he was trying to convince the core Party that he really was 'one of them', despite his other wishy-washy policies, without realising that that Party actually quite liked being in the EPP.
Essentially, he was in very real danger of re-opening the old Tory split over Europe for absolutely no reason whatsoever. You can't blame him for backtracking as fast as possible.
BogMarsh
14-07-2006, 12:47
You can't blame him. He really walked into a minefield with that policy - he was trying to convince the core Party that he really was 'one of them', despite his other wishy-washy policies, without realising that that Party actually quite liked being in the EPP.
Essentially, he was in very real danger of re-opening the old Tory split over Europe for absolutely no reason whatsoever. You can't blame him for backtracking as fast as possible.
The Tories who split the wrong way already buggered off to UKIP.
No need to cuddle those.
Philosopy
14-07-2006, 12:50
The Tories who split the wrong way already buggered off to UKIP.
No need to cuddle those.
Well quite, and the Tories who didn't split that way are the ones who are left, and who he's annoying now.
In other words, he is appealing to the UKIP voter at the expense of the Tory one.
BogMarsh
14-07-2006, 12:55
Well quite, and the Tories who didn't split that way are the ones who are left, and who he's annoying now.
In other words, he is appealing to the UKIP voter at the expense of the Tory one.
Confounding the polliticks and frustrating the knavish tricks
of those who are unfaithful to our Federal Union.
Not all that bad, wot? :)