Clegg tries to rebuild EU bridges

Vulture

The pro-business people you refer to, Jonathan, are led by a PR merchant named Roland Rat - sorry, Roland Rudd.

PR is not a business. They don't make anything and the only things they sell are lies.

Such as the big whopper that Britain is 'better off' inside the Euro, or indeed the EU itself.

The Lib dems, themselves the party of fibbers and fantasists, are pulling RR's
strings. (Or he theirs, its all smoke and mirrors.)

Either way the bridges that Cleggie is seeking to build with Europe are similar to the bridges depicted on his beloved Euro notes> They don't exist and they lead nowhere.

How very appropriate.

David Cockerham

The LibDems can always be relied upon to give highest priority to presenting an image of their own moral superiority to the world, even if that means loading so much green energy cost onto our fuel bills that more old people freeze in winter; and fretting about what France thinks of us rather than the fact that France is clearly trying to shaft us.

Mycroft

So it will now be the LDs who are 'banging on' about Europe; and the more they do, the better it will be for the Conservatives!

PayDirt

Clegg and associates are fighting yesterday’s battle not to disengage with the EZ. UK taxpayers, and increasingly Joe Public, have moved on. Too many financial doom forecasts around to allow any room for doubt that saving the EU and the banks is a worthy cause.

Russell

With the LibDems more interested in the eurozone than the poundzone and labour more interested in the public sector zone than the poundzone, it will be interesting how results go in more normal constituencies than yesterday's.

Jeremy

Jonathan Jones:

"What are the Lib Dems up to?"

Oooh, let me guess!...Finding a hundred thousand ways to bring down David Cameron and enslave this country to a federal Europe.

Heartless P.

The worm turns, - and in the usual direction!

oldtimer

The Clegg flipflops over their position on the veto, and subsequent Parliamentary votes, raises an obvious question: "Who is pulling Nick Clegg`s strings?" Is it some LibDem grandee? My bet is that it is an EUligarch somewhere in Brussels worried that the UK may actually decided to quit the EU and take its budget contribution with it.

strapworld

Remember those Soviet 'sleepers'...Cleggy is an EU sleeper.

Gosh the Lib Dems are totally out of touch with reality.

Ian Walker

I wonder what Clegg thinks of today's comments by Christian Noyer, the governor of the Bank of France, and François Baroin, the finance minister?

Number7

I see that the fragrant Mr Rudd has worked for Mandelson.

What other skeletons has he got in his cupboard?

justathought

"But it does highlight what will be a key goal of the Lib Dem leadership.." Does this include not sleeping trough crucial EU summits? Any PR guru that can build a reputation from this low point is worth every penny.

TrevorsDen

The Lib Dems obsession with europe rather than Britain is pathetic. Just why do they bother. Lets face it by any measure the EU and the Euro are failures. Millions of people all over Europe are paying the price for the failure of the Euro and all the LDs can do is defend it.

I can only assume its because if they cannot get power in Britain they do not want anyone else to have any either.

anne allan

The LibDems behaving sneakily and trying to undermine the Conservatives?
Oh no, tell me it isn't so!

Halcyondaze

Sneaky little traitors. They'll do anything to protect their EU pensions and perks. If Cameron had any backbone he'd call an election and decimate the lot of them. How I'd love UKIP to supplant them as the third party - and remind Cameron that weaselling out of this will simply not be tolerated.

Dennis Churchill

So is that it? Is the purpose of the LibDems to represent the interests of the European Union in the UK parliament?

Hexhamgeezer

Isn't it about time the Speccy grew some balls and put some quesions to this odious little snake?

Like; Do you support a UK rebate? Do you support the removal of sovereign nations leaders? Would you support the removal of a British PM if they similarly transgressed? Why do you stay silent on Euro corruption and EU accountancy? Why haven't you campaigned for reform of the CAP and Common Fisheries Policy? Would you support further requests to fund the Eurozones failed states? Do you support signing up to Schengen? and so on and so on.

joe

It's not the LibDims that I worry about, it's Cameron.

He is just waiting for the opportunity to go back on last week's veto, and sign up to anything Frau Merkel decides upon. Get hold of your nearest Tory MPs and e-mail them constantly until the euro has well and truly collapsed.

Cynic

"... in what the FT describes as as 'a very public display of engagement with business over Europe' and the front page of today's Mail calls 'plotting to rally business chiefs against Cameron over Europe'" and what I would call 'selling the UK down the river'.

Cynic

"... building bridges with Europe, particularly to reconnect with traditional, europhile Lib Dem supporters following the PM's veto last week." Presumably he's targeting the 36% of LibDem voters who didn't agree with Cameron's actions? There's none so blind ...

Cynic

"Many in the party are frustrated that, after keeping them in check for the first 18 months, Tory backbenchers now seem to be winning the battle over Europe." You mean, those Tory backbenchers who are wholly in tune with the mood of the electorate?

TGF UKIP

See, you Tory fuckers keep on forgetting that in May 2010 you lost MPs and finished up with only 57 seats whereas we triumphant LibDems won over 100 extra seats and ended up with 307 MPs. So belt up, get real and watch while we show you what belly-crawling to the EU really means.

Boudicca

Clegg tries to rebuild EU bridges - then we'll just have to try even harder to stop him.

UKIP got very close in Feltham yesterday - we were just 88 measley votes behind the LibDems. There is disappointment in the Boudicca household tonight - and then I shall get out on the stump after Christmas delivering UKIP Surrey News.