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You are right but 'demand political reforms' is easier said than done. Greece is paralyzed since 7 years without progress. Motte: blame others do nothing, cry.

You are right but 'demand political reforms' is easier said than done. Greece is paralyzed since 7 years without progress. Motte: blame others do nothing, cry. Merkel is no joke, she is the most intelligent and gifted politician around. (Of course this is as subjective as your statement, but I'm right :-)).

venomsnake 11y ago
> she is the most intelligent and gifted politician around. She is entertaining Cameron's crazytalk of secession. Instead of just saying - go on, let me see you. And that means she has no idea what she is doing.
- ZeroGravitas 11y ago
  Cameron doesn't want to leave the EU. He represents business interests, who overwhelmingly benefit from EU membership so he's fighting to stay in. But his party also has lots of people who cling to dream of the British Empire, and don't like social democracy, who dislike what the EU stands for. Those people were threatening to defect to a smaller party, which under the UK's ridiculous first-past-the-post system meant that those single issue voters could heavily influence policy despite their relatively small numbers. As a result we're going to have a referendum, that Cameron didn't actually want to have, and which he's going to campaign on the pro-EU side for. So Cameron needs to make it look like the EU is making concessions, so that he can return to the UK and campaign to stay in and make it seems like he's won some great victory. Note that he's being very vague about what he wants from the EU, this is because he's going to claim victory whatever happens, and he knows probably nothing will happen. Merkel also knows this, and knows he knows, and so the only thing she needs to do is not embarrass Cameron too much in order for the UK to vote strongly to remain in the EU. Calling his bluff and exposing this nonsense for what it is would be fun, but not particularly smart.

venomsnake 11y ago

> she is the most intelligent and gifted politician around. She is entertaining Cameron's crazytalk of secession. Instead of just saying - go on, let me see you. And that means she has no idea what she is doing.

ZeroGravitas 11y ago
Cameron doesn't want to leave the EU. He represents business interests, who overwhelmingly benefit from EU membership so he's fighting to stay in. But his party also has lots of people who cling to dream of the British Empire, and don't like social democracy, who dislike what the EU stands for. Those people were threatening to defect to a smaller party, which under the UK's ridiculous first-past-the-post system meant that those single issue voters could heavily influence policy despite their relatively small numbers. As a result we're going to have a referendum, that Cameron didn't actually want to have, and which he's going to campaign on the pro-EU side for. So Cameron needs to make it look like the EU is making concessions, so that he can return to the UK and campaign to stay in and make it seems like he's won some great victory. Note that he's being very vague about what he wants from the EU, this is because he's going to claim victory whatever happens, and he knows probably nothing will happen. Merkel also knows this, and knows he knows, and so the only thing she needs to do is not embarrass Cameron too much in order for the UK to vote strongly to remain in the EU. Calling his bluff and exposing this nonsense for what it is would be fun, but not particularly smart.