Cameron's EU Veto - Alone again, naturally!

You have to be a world class politician to walk out of a EU Treaty negotiation with nothing and sell it back home as a Triumph!
The song is Gilbert O'Sullivan´s hit "Alone again".

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Cameron
• Merkel
• Sarkozy
• EU
• Treaty
• Veto
• hand shake
• Boris Johnson
• gilbert O'sullivan
• alone again

[losdosabuelos]

Report continues:

Icap, the brokerage run by the former Conservative party treasurer and outspoken critic of the EU's financial transaction tax proposal, Michael Spencer, is the broking firm most used by banks to buy and sell equities for the purpose of "dividend washing", as the trade is more commonly known, according to four well-placed City sources.

Is the sort of “UK Bailout” that segano1 had in mind?

[losdosabuelos]

Guardian 18/12/11:

Some of the UK's biggest banks are behind a huge tax avoidance trade "cheating" European countries of hundreds of millions of euros a year, in a development that sheds fresh light on Cameron's decision to wield Britain's EU veto to protect the Square Mile.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism uncovered a £65.7bn market in EU dividends whose "central" purpose is tax avoidance. The analysis suggests the tax loss – mainly to France, Germany and Italy – is up to £500m pa.

[lenoxnapier]

And now the Foreign Office is sending out the boats to come and save us. The Spirit of Dunkirk! We are all quite happy here and we ain't coming back. It's relatively warm, the people are nice and the crime-rate is low. The banks here are perfectly safe and generally the prices are much lower than yours in the UK.

Friends, you have never helped us before and, anyway, Britain's run out of gun boats, hasn't it?

[lenoxnapier]

And what of Britain, the 27th state? Don't like the pesky foreigners, hey? And, more important still, what of the 750,000 Britons living in Spain? Are we now pointing towards becoming once again extranjeros instead of europeos? What about health benefits, residence, voting rights, work permissions and visas?

[segano1]

@clicksalop92 The whole UK would be more pleased to be rid of the bankrupted pathetic EU actually. The EU relied on UK bail outs, and still couldn't even maintain itself.

[clicksalop92]

Uk is a trojan horse in Europe, good riddance lool

[JckSwan]

Re. Your new roads - you're welcome, don't mention it.

[richiedaw]

spot on thats going to be tweeted @richiedaw .A veto is when you stop something happening not when the rest of the group go off and do it anyway