Tate & Lyle says we would be better off out of the EU without major changes

Tate & Lyle, the UK's last remaining sugar cane refiner, has said that unless David Cameron secures big changes to the way the EU works we would be better off out.

In 2017 the EU is removing restrictions on the amount of sugar beet that can be produced in the EU and will start subsidising EU sugar beet farmers when the price of sugar beet goes down due to the consequential over-supply. But the protectionist tariff on sugar cane - currently £246 per metric ton - will remain, costing consumers more and putting Tate & Lyle's future in the UK at risk.

Tate & Lyle had 6 refineries in the UK before we joined the EU and now has just one. They're quite clear who is to blame for the decline of their UK operations as well - EU regulations are "the single biggest impact on our business" according to the head of Tate & Lyle UK, Gerald Mason. He went on to say "If we carry on down this route it puts our business and the jobs here under real threat".

That Tory "eurosceptic" myth again

UKIP in their heart, Tory
in their pockets

Tory MP, Heather Wheeler, has signed up to the cross-party Better Off Out campaign.  She is the tenth Tory MP to sign up and publicly oppose our membership of the EU.

Some Tories are optimistically calling them "eurosceptic" MPs but of course no LibLabCon MP can genuinely earn the title "eurosceptic" until they defect to UKIP, the only mainstream eurosceptic political party in the country.

The "eurosceptic" Conservative Party has 307 MPs and only 10 of them have signed the Better Off Out pledge.  Only 2 Conservative MEPs are Better Off Out signatories, one of which is the turncoat David Campbell-Bannerman who abandoned UKIP when he lost the leadership election to Nigel Farage to join the pro-EU Tories.  The "mainstream eurosceptic" group of Tory MPs (whose opposition to the EU involves ... erm, staying in the EU) has apparently grown to over 100 but there is still no sign of action from Cameron, even  with up to a third of his MPs publicly disagreeing with his pro-EU policy.  Talk about being out of touch with reality.

But no matter what pledges these MPs take and how many meetings they attend, if they remain in the pro-EU Conservative Party, they are part of the problem.

Camoron ignores 77% of members on EU

A poll by ConservativeHome shows that 77% of Tories think Tory MPs and PPCs should be able to sign up to the Better Off Out campaign.

David Camoron has banned Tories from publicly opposing the UK's membership of the European Empire via the Better Off Out campaign. Supporters of Better Off Out are not allowed to be PPCs, MPs that sign the Better Off Out pledge face losing the Tory whip and any MP who was already a signatory before the ban was introduced is banned from sitting on the front bench.

Camoron will not tolerate open euroscepticism in the Conswervative Party, all MPs must get behind his eurofederalist ideals.

If Camoron is prepared to ignore 77% of his own membership then why should we believe that he will listen to the electorate?