Reply #27: My view precisely

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Cameron barely mentioned any concern for British or other European voters as a reason for wielding his veto so busy was he trying to defend the financial interests of his mates in the City of London

As a member of the British left and a life long critic of the current European project my beef with the EU is its huge democratic deficit which has become nakedly obvious in the curent crisis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics-blog/2011/nov/08/euro-papandreou-berlusconi-bailout-debt

BTW any US readers interested in the history of Britains relationship with Europe need to be aware that 30 years ago it was members of the Labour Party that led the opposition to the UKs membership of the EEC and its successors. Most of the Conservative Party including the supposedly Eurosceptic Mrs Margaret Hilda Thatcher lobbied for the Yes vote in the European Referendum of 1975 as part of a campaign bankrolled by big business

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Communities_membership_referendum,_1975

It was only when that toad Blair got hold of the Labour Party that it lost its sense of history

The old Labour view point is best set out on Peter Shore's magisterial book 'Seperate Ways' which is probably the best critique of the EU and its predecessors ever written

http://www.junepress.com/reviewpic.asp?BID=635

Needless to say Conservatives only started to get cold feet about the whole thing when they thought it might hit them in the wallet.