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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Tue Nov 10, 2015, 11:04 AM Nov 2015

Cameron speech on UK leaving/staying in EU: He wants free trade in EU but not free movement.

More national sovereignty, less immigration.

Ever since David Cameron announced the EU referendum in his Bloomberg speech in January 2013, the two Tory Euro tribes (it used to be the Eurosceptics and the Europhiles, but they are all Eurosceptics now - the divide is between the Out Eurosceptics and the In Eurosceptics) have been engaged in an uneasy stand-off.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2015/nov/10/camerons-eu-renegotiation-tusk-letter-out-eu-renegotiation-demands-politics-live

UK Conservatives used to be split between those who liked and those who hated the EU. Now they all hate the EU. They are just divided on whether to leave the EU or remain in it.)

The far-right UKIP and the right wing of the Conservative party are not happy because he did not overtly support the UK's exit from the EU. They support enhanced national sovereignty and stricter border controls to limit freedom of movement and immigration.

France's far-right National Front is enthusiastic about the British EU referendum seeing a British exit from the EU

as a triumph of her own critical stance on the European Union and drive to exit the euro."

“I am so happy to see David Cameron doing in the UK what I want to do for France. He’s using the months ahead of the referendum to get what he wants for his country, and we want that too, more sovereignty for France and more freedom.”

http://www.politico.eu/article/live-camerons-eu-reform-demands-uk-eu-membership-negotiations/

The Scottish National Party (there are no Conservative MP's from Scotland) stated that they will back the 'Stay In the EU' side of the referendum. There was talk last year that, if the Scottish independence referendum had succeeded, Scotland would have sought to join the EU if the UK left it, assuming the the EU was willing to accept Scotland.
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