Winning ugly won’t work, warns David Clark.
David Cameron’s referendum pitch relies heavily on the mantra a “reformed Europe”, but it would be wrong for pro-Europeans to indulge the idea that the deal he negotiated in Brussels last month is anything more than a fig leaf. The parts of it that might turn out to be modestly beneficial were either going to happen anyway or could have been negotiated without the threat of a referendum. The rest is just spin. Take Britain’s opt-out from the commitment to “ever closer union”. The phrase itself means nothing because no new …read more
Source: New Statesman
