DAVID CAMERON'S EU FANTASY


The British genius for putting a positive gloss on abject failure
continues with David Cameron's predicted, humiliating defeat
over Jean-Claude Juncker's appointment. The Prime Minister's
ill-thought-out strategy for securing the early repatriation of
sovereign powers back to Westminster was always doomed.
It could only have worked if Angela Merkel and her colleagues
had believed that there was the real possibility of Britain
withdrawing from the EU and they clearly did not. Mr Cameron
waved the white flag as he was brought to heel by an
unaccountable political elite, whose fine words of
reconciliation about the critical need for reform are
all but worthless.