UK's Cameron will move EU referendum forward if possible

[Hindustani78]

UK's Cameron will move EU referendum forward if possible| Reuters
By Kylie MacLellan

LONDON Sun Jan 4, 2015 9:19am EST

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks as he stands in front of a new Conservative Party poster, after unveiling it at Dean Clough Mill in Halifax, northern England January 2, 2015.

(Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Sunday he would like to bring forward a planned referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union from 2017 if possible.

Under pressure from Eurosceptic members of his own party and the rise in popularity of the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), Cameron has pledged to renegotiate Britain's ties with the 28-nation bloc and try to claw back powers to London.

He has said he will hold a referendum in 2017 if his Conservatives win a national election on May 7.

"If I think we could do that earlier I would be delighted. The sooner I can deliver on this commitment of a renegotiation and a referendum ... the better," he told the BBC.

Cameron is set to discuss his reform plans, which include restricting EU migrants' access to welfare payments, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in London on Wednesday. He has said they will require treaty change but Merkel has made clear she will not allow the EU's rules on workers' freedom of movement to be diluted.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage told Sky News that under Cameron's plans the referendum had been "kicked into the long grass" and said his renegotiation looked "highly improbable".

The May election looks set to be one of the most closely fought in modern British history. While the Conservatives are narrowly trailing the opposition Labour party in most opinion polls, many analysts predict neither will win a majority, possibly resulting in another coalition of two or more parties.

Cameron, whose center-right Conservatives have governed Britain in coalition with the center-left Liberal Democrats since 2010, traded blows with Labour on Sunday over the economy and healthcare.

"BAD WAYS"

Labour says the Conservatives have borrowed much more than planned and now aim to cut the budget deficit too fast and too deeply for purely ideological reasons.

Cameron's supporters note that Britain's $2.5 trillion economy has emerged from its deepest downturn since World War Two to enjoy now the fastest growth rate of any major advanced economy.

"The real concern I have is if we turn back now, if we go back to the bad ways of more borrowing, more spending, more debt ... we will go right back to start and really threaten the economic recovery," said Cameron.

He said further planned public spending cuts were "moderate, sensible, reasonable" while Labour's proposals would mean more borrowing and an extra 13.5 billion pounds ($20.7 billion) in debt interest payments by the end of the next parliament.

Labour business spokesman Chuka Umunna said the comments were "desperate claims from a desperate prime minister".

On Sunday Labour unveiled two campaign posters and a 27-page document criticizing what it described as falling standards in the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) under Cameron and warning the Conservatives' planned cuts would damage it further.

"Our health service as you know it won't survive another five years of David Cameron," Labour election chief Douglas Alexander said. "That is why the NHS is on the ballot paper at this election."

(Editing by Gareth Jones)

 

[Steve781]

"If possible" being the key words. He has no intention of doing so but will claim he had no choice if he doesn't.

 

[flamer84]

Poles,Romanians and Bulgarians are destroying the UK.They must leave the EU to save themselves while there's still time.

The Caliphate seems the next logical union for Al Britannia.

 

[Steve781]

Poles,Romanians and Bulgarians are destroying the UK.They must leave the EU to save themselves while there's still time.

The eastern European influx was a blessing for those opposed to immigration because it's a lot easier to criticise it from those countries than those who come from Asia or Africa. Nobody can use the dreaded R word. You're only "xenophobic" which is nicer.

 

[Superboy]

EU is controlled by Germany. Britain does not submit to Germany, hence Britain never adopted euro. Britain will quit EU.

 

[flamer84]

The eastern European influx was a blessing for those opposed to immigration because it's a lot easier to criticise it from those countries than those who come from Asia or Africa.

Ofcourse.It's not racism if you put white European christians down.

I just loved the pictures from obscure gypsie ghettos/villages with big titles like "This is how they live in Romania" from UK papers.Top notch journalism right there.

 

[Steve781]

Ofcourse.It's not racism if you put white European christians down.

I just loved the pictures from obscure gypsie ghettos/villages with big titles like "This is how they live in Romania" from UK papers.Top notch journalism right there.

England is actually quite unique in Europe in that our gypsy population is highly assimilated due to intermarriage.
Romanichal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are now almost entirely European in their admixture instead of Asian while on the continent Gypsies still look like their Indian ancestors. Was there never any intermarriage with the Gypsy population in Romania?

 

[Hindustani78]

The eastern European influx was a blessing for those opposed to immigration because it's a lot easier to criticise it from those countries than those who come from Asia or Africa.

i think British people wont like to spoil business relations with non European nations and Brittan will have a lot at its stake because there would be just influx of immigrants from the Eastern Europe but there would be no investment and again the European powers will indulge in internal power politics. If Britain will join EU , will the British nationals will be accepted all over EU borders ? When Britain is letting Eastern Europeans inside , will the Eastern European governments will let British nationals to invest ? Already all these questions are clearly visible but whatever the decisions are being made , i think European policy makers should think even from all the sides.

EU is controlled by Germany. Britain does not submit to Germany, hence Britain never adopted euro. Britain will quit EU.

Its control by the founding members and all members are given equal opportunities.

 

[flamer84]

England is actually quite unique in Europe in that our gypsy population is highly assimilated due to intermarriage.
Romanichal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are now almost entirely European in their admixture instead of Asian while on the continent Gypsies still look like their Indian ancestors. Was there never any intermarriage with the Gypsy population in Romania?

To a very little extent,our gypsies are very segregated and don't like Romanians or any other outsiders to much.

 

[Superboy]

Its control by the founding members and all members are given equal opportunities.

Germany is the backbone and Germany calls the shots. Euro = New Deutsch Mark

 

[waz]

Compulsive liar. He is just trying to stem the UKIP tide. Too little too late I'm afraid. People in the UK don't want the EU.

 

[Hindustani78]

Germany is the backbone and Germany calls the shots. Euro = New Deutsch Mark

Its Germany, France and Norway .

 

[ozzy22]

Ofcourse.It's not racism if you put white European christians down.

I just loved the pictures from obscure gypsie ghettos/villages with big titles like "This is how they live in Romania" from UK papers.Top notch journalism right there.

Do you agree that newspapers like these do the same thing to Muslims? And I don’t think they are scared to criticize us. You just need to look at any of the well known news websites to see how "terrified" they are by Muslims.

 

[Superboy]

Its Germany, France and Norway .

Norway? Seriously? France is too weak in the EU to do anything.

 

[waz]

To a very little extent,our gypsies are very segregated and don't like Romanians or any other outsiders to much.

I hear from Romanians they are actually a proverbial pain. They have carried over much of the same way of living to the UK which has led to racial tensions, increased opposition to the EU and so forth.
The problem is when you give the right of "freedom of movement", you can't really control who comes and goes. This has sadly led to a surge of criminals, who have left mainly Eastern European states and sullied the name of these nations.

I just loved the pictures from obscure gypsie ghettos/villages with big titles like "This is how they live in Romania" from UK papers.Top notch journalism right there.

That was plain silly. I laughed at that as well. The harsh reality is such messages resonate well now.