I agree there was plenty of silliness in certain parts of the UK press, though there was also a more reasonable point made that the people advocating change fro

I agree there was plenty of silliness in certain parts of the UK press, though there was also a more reasonable point made that the people advocating change from within had had decades to make progress and had not successfully addressed the criticisms being made so their arguments looked unconvincing. Once Cameron came back with what most people seemed to consider token concessions at best despite being in possibly the strongest negotiating position a UK PM would ever have, the reform from within advocates had little wind left in their sails. I agree that political amnesia is a strange phenomenon. On this kind of issue, that can shift the balance of popular opinion either way over time.