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Originally Posted by palo5
What is your opinion about his (Cameron's) motivation?
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About the EU ... he was tied into a referendum largely due to the rise of UKIP, Labour hinted that under them one was unlikely. I think he knew it would be popular with the electorate at the General Election but I think personally he and other top Conservatives and importantly their financial backers want us to stay in which is why he is making big noises about concessions.
Over the years we have seen EU quotas shrink our fishing industry, the CAP was a farce getting farmers to produce goods that we already had excess capacity of which is why they had the infamous butter mountains, wine lakes etc.
I accept there have been some reforms ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-eu-32129018
http://www.ecpa.eu/information-page/...ral-policy-cap
However issues like these linger in our memories
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-worth-50.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14143606
http://www.brusselstimes.com/magazin...in-our-history
It could be too close to call and one slip up by either side in the next few months could be a deciding factor.
I am about 55% for voting to come out, I want to hear positives from the EU about reforms and I want less of this sort of scaremongering.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politic...endum-35685656
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