The people of the UK were promised a referendum on any major EU treaty changes. They were also promised that the government would, in future, ensure that they put the UK first in all dealings with the EU.
Now there are major treaty changes, and unanimous support required to get the Euro out of its current hole. Will the government put the UK first and get us the best deal? or will the government roll over and simply give away whatever negotiating capital we have?
Clegg says roll over:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/21/nick-clegg-david-cameron-eurozone
Osborne pretends to stand firm for the UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8656959/George-Osborne-Well-use-euro-crisis-to-boost-British-interests.html
But in fact Osbourne has already rolled over:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/260558/Bail-out-shows-we-need-an-EU-referendum-say-Tories
While Cameron had rolled over along all along:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23972297-eurosceptics-in-referendum-call-after-pound-96-and-8201billion-greek-bail-out.do
So after endless "Euro is no business of the UK, cos we ain't in it" we get "We must help the Euro because the Eurozone is critical to UK interests" we are back to "Treaty changes for the Euro are none of our business because it doesn't affect the UK".
UKIP should be taking centre stage saying "There was only ever one way to avoid this Euro disaster. That was for the currency never to have been created. Now... who has been saying that all along? Oh yes! UKIP."
If it is in UK's interest to protect itself by protecting the Economies of all European nations, then it was our governments responsiblity to have prevented the introduction of the Euro in the first place. LibLabCon all failed in this, which is why we are now here.
Blair is still in favour of the UK joining the Euro, Clegg and Cameron call for more EU/Eurozone political integration - what drives their tunnel vision, that they can only see 'More EU' as the answer to everything? Anyone would think they didn't consider themselves competent to run the UK as an independent country, that they only saw themselves as middle managers in the EU organisation.
(orignally posted at: http://free-english-people.blogspot.com/2011/07/will-uk-negotiate-over-eu-treaty.html)