Tories Put Pressure on British PM To Repatriate Powers
David Cameron
The Conservatory leading figures in the United Kingdom declared that they were maneuvering to put pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron, the leader of the party, to repatriate the powers Britain transferred to the European Union. Cameron participates at an EU summit intended to demand the eurozone countries the transfer of even more powers to Brussels.
Edward Leigh, a veteran of the right wing, convened the three most important groups of the Tories to make sure Cameron returns with significant gain from Europe.
On Wednesday, the Northern Ireland secretary said that if the EU summit would demand that powers be transferred to Brussels, the people of Britain should put this request to a referendum.
A referendum on whether to continue as member of the EU was thwarted in the parliament last month, as the Labor and Democrat Liberals had to vote against the proposal, while the ruling party voted in favor of it.
Boris Johnson, another figure of the Tory eurosceptics, said that if there were a new treaty of the European Union, which created some sort of fiscal union, then Britain would have no option but to either say no or put it to a referendum.
The Tories conceive a “sandwich referendum,” that is a referendum on the proposal to repatriate the powers from Brussels, and depending on the repatriation negotiations in Brussels, if the answer is no, a second referendum on membership of the EU.
On Wednesday, the Tories announced that Britain would only ratify the new treaty, if there is a new one, or the changes in the old one, provided that some guarantees are being given to Britain that the new provisions do not affect London’s status of global financial hub.
Britain protested especially the provision referring to imposing a new tax on transactions throughout Europe, which would have damaged its financial service industry.
The British fears that the 17 eurozone nations would create a zone that would leave the other members out of the decision-making process is shared by some of the ten non-eurozone nations, most of all by Poland, an important member of the EU, and holder of the rotating presidency of the continental body.
