Grayling: Saving the €uro is more important than saving us from the EU

Earlier this month Camoron went to Germany and agreed to wave through Angela Merkel's Fourth Reich enabling treaty without the required referendum in exchange for her thinking about letting us continue to opt out of bits of the Working Time Directive.

Dear Dave, this is not the
time to fold

She's obviously had a think and decided the answer is no because the plan to exact "reform" of the WTD in exchange for creating a new Greater German Empire has been dropped.

Chris Grayling MP said that doomed attempts to save the €uro are more important than matters of national interest and sovereignty so they would let the EU get on with whatever it wants to do and hope that non-€urozone members don't lose out in the process.

So basically, the British government has the strongest hand it could possibly have and instead of capitalising on that and wringing a string of concessions out of the EU in exchange for illegally depriving us of a referendum on the Fourth Reich enabling treaty, they've folded!

Cameron agrees to Fourth Reich treaty

Cast Iron Dave has agreed to wave through German treaty changes to create the Fourth Reich without a referendum and in exchange Angela Merkel has agreed to have a think about giving us permission to continue opting out of the more damaging clauses of the EU Working Time Directive.

Ok, zis time you be Eva Braun and
I'll be ze Führer

This is the kind of pathetic concession that the Tories are talking about when they talk about "repatriation" of powers from the EU.  They don't mean doing away with EU competencies or repealing unpopular directives, they mean having a think about keeping opt-outs that we already have.

There is no provision for returning powers from the EU to national governments in the EU Constitution/Lisbon Treaty, powers can only flow one way.  There is no political will behind the "repatriation" of powers either in the British government or the EU, nor is there a way of actually doing it.  The Tories know this and that's why they refuse to tell us how it would work, why they refuse to demand concessions in exchange for signing treaties, it's why no power has ever been returned from the EU to national governments and why a British government official says that there is no intention of trying.