The Never Ending Search ?

[youngmafbog]

//The Prime Minister has stressed the need for an "honest and trusted broker" for the top job in Brussels as he ramped up his campaign to stop Luxembourg's former prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker becoming president of the European Commission.//

Well good luck to him finding and honest and trusted person the EU !!!


http://news.sky.com/story/1281447/pm-bids-to-block-juncker-for-top-brussels-job

[DaisyNonna]

Seconded

[treetops68]

Thirded! :-)

[mikey4444]

It will be a decision made by the whole of the EU, not just dave, so if the chosen one isn't to his liking...well, that is the burden of democracy for you.

[ToraToraTora]

yes I think the PM is setting the sights a bit high there! It's only been about 15 years since the accounts have been signed off!

[ToraToraTora]

well we can always leave the party mikey and stop paying for it! 40% of the budget goes on Junckers mates for the CAP. wonder how they'd react to less money to pi55 away on inneficient farming eh? Probably fill Paris with tractors!

[New Judge]

"...that is the burden of democracy for you."

Er...not quite Mikey. That is the burden of belonging t a supra national anti-democratic organisation that chooses the person to occupy its most powerful position over agreeable dinners behind closed doors.

Democracy it ain't!

[sandyRoe]

If the EU is such a bad thing for the UK why do our politicians put up with it and all the internal party strife it brings? During Major's time as PM, for example, the eurosceptics nearly tore the party apart.

[AB Editor]

Because, despite all it's problems, it's still better than a war next door. Additionally I think we all wouldn't mind it if it worked a bit better, and the political class know that.

[youngmafbog]

//it's still better than a war next door//

So we do what France did and capitulate? Effectively the Germans are achieving by stealth what they failed to do by 2 wars.

That's better is it?

[jno]

are you suggesting, NJ, that the most powerful person in Britain is elected by the public?

[mikey4444]

sandy...small but important correction. The EU didn't nearly tear the Tory Party apart, it completely did. Major only just won the 1992 election and then was defeated by a huge landslide victory for Labour in 1997, unseen even in 1945.

Remember Major's phrase about the Bar Stewards ? The Tory Party's internal squabbling over Europe has always been one of Labour's best assets. We have already seen the birth and growth of UKIP, mainly at the expense of the Tories and its all happening again.

[mikey4444]

Ed...you have it right. Get Europe to work better and then there wouldn't be so much fuss and bother.

[Gromit]

Cameron has lost the plot in Europe.

He jumped from the largest group to one of the small ones, then is perplexed that he has little influence and no one is listening to him.

It usually helps to have a preferred candidate of your own if you want to persuade people away from the front runner. If there is anyone better, why doesn't Dave tell us who that is?

[tonyav]

What about this guy !
http://www.expressandstar.com/comment-and-opinion/star-comment/2014/06/13/blairs-legacy-is-unravelling/

[mikey4444]

Tonyav...not sure what this has to do with the topic under discussion. Suitable for another post perhaps ?