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David Cameron: "My way or the highway!"
David Cameron: "My way or the highway!"
The UK is set to hold a referendum by the end of 2017 on whether to leave the 28-nation EU. Cameron says he wants to stay in, provided he can secure greater autonomy for the UK.
Cameron said the UK wants change in four areas, including protection for countries such as Britain that don't use the euro single currency, less red tape and greater power for national parliaments to opt out of rules made by the Brussels-based EU.
Comment: Well, make that three..., oops, guess there's a couple more...five?
"We are a proud, independent nation. We intend to stay that way," Cameron said. He went on adding that Britain wanted a "clear, legally binding and irreversible" exemption from the EU's commitment to an ever-closer union.
He also said that Britain wants to bar EU migrants from receiving tax credits and other benefits paid to working people during their first four years in Britain. That is likely to face opposition by some EU leaders, who see free movement of labor, as well as of goods, as a cornerstone of the bloc. "We don't want to destroy that principle... But freedom of movement has never been an unqualified right," he said.
Comment: No, Mr. Ox Y. Moron, sir! "FREEDOM" has to be UNQUALIFIED! That's precisely why they call it "FREEDOM!"
Comment: Perhaps the British people should vote a Cameronexit. Bet there are at least four "irreversible changes" they might like to make...