Suppose you wanted to buy a car. Would you say to the existing owner: ‘You should know, before we discuss the price, that I am determined to buy from you in any event’? After thanking his lucky stars for sending him such a dunderhead, the seller would charge you as much as he thought you could afford. That observation may sound so obvious as to be hardly worth making. Yet it is precisely the position the Government has got itself into vis-à-vis the EU. No one in Brussels thinks David Cameron would ever lead a campaign to leave. Whatever deal he comes back with, Eurocrats believe, he will recommend it to the British electorate — backed, naturally, by the Labour and Lib Dem leaders. So why bother to offer him any concessions? It’s already becoming clear that the renegotiation will leave things much as they are
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:02:20 +0000
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