In reply to skog:
> I can't tell whether you're spinning hard, or delusional, but either way you're completely making that up.The manifesto commitment to the single market couldn't be clearer.
> Your reading is completely nuts. Do you seriously think that all this was a commitment as to what the government will do if the UK leaves the EU?
But there is much more to do
? The EU is too bureaucratic
and too undemocratic? It interferes too much in our
daily lives, and the scale of migration triggered by new
members joining in recent years has had a real impact on
local communities
? We are clear about what we want from
Europe
? We say: yes to the Single Market
? Yes to turbo-
charging free trade
? Yes to working together where we are
stronger together than alone
? Yes to a family of nation
states, all part of a European Union – but whose interests,
crucially, are guaranteed whether inside the Euro or out
?
No to ‘ever closer union.’ No to a constant flow of power
to Brussels
? No to unnecessary interference
? And no, of
course, to the Euro, to participation in Eurozone bail-outs
or notions like a European Army
?
Will they be pursuing all that when they are not members??? Most of it is completely redundant in that case. It's blindingly obviously a manifesto for what the government wants to do as a member. Hence it is immediately followed by:
"It will be a fundamental principle of a future Conservative
Government that membership of the European Union
depends on the consent of the British people – and in
recent years that consent has worn wafer-thin? That’s why,
after the election, we will negotiate a new settlement for
Britain in Europe, and then ask the British people whether
they want to stay in the EU on this reformed basis or leave
? "
The whole of page 73, which outlines how the government would like to "improve" the EU as a member (including enhancing the single market) . How the hell could it do these things if not a memebr?
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