In this new episode, we talk about Labour’s troubled relationship with the EU in light of Burnham’s suggestion of a reverse Brexit with Prof Nicole Lindstrom https://t.co/CDOsodOKvt
It was Cameron’s nasty, ideologically-driven austerity that helped create the conditions for the Brexit vote. He (and those who facilitated his policies) was an utter disaster for Britain.
I was a fan of David Cameron’s premiership and worked for his government at one stage. On the subject of Europe, however, he is once again speaking from his own party’s interest and can be safely and completely ignored.
***EXCLUSIVE by @MishalHusain***
David Cameron says Britain should NOT rejoin the EU
The former prime minister warns Andy Burnham that starting a conversation about rejoining would be “very long and painful”
Speaking in a Bloomberg interview, Cameron urges Burnham not to trigger another “decade-long debate about whether should be in or out.” He also says the UK should not enter a customs union with the EU
As the PM who led the Remain campaign in 2016, Cameron’s intervention will be seen as significant. He says Britain’s economic problems aren’t due to Brexit
“Today, instead of launching an argument about rejoining, which I think would be a very long and painful argument, and who knows where it would end up, instead of that, focus on how do we be the best friend, best neighbour, best partner,” Cameron says
The former PM also warns Burnham that talking about Britain rejoining could hamper future negotiations
“If you start endlessly producing this idea that we’re actually on a path to rejoining, I think you’re in danger of getting a less good partnership deal because of course the EU countries will just think: well, these guys are gonna rejoin anyway, so what’s the point in giving them a good partnership deal… If you’re not going to, you know, commit to trying to make the partnership stronger because you’re flirting with rejoining, I think there’s some dangers there,” Cameron says
“I don’t think actually necessarily joining a customs union is the right answer. If you look at the economic problems we have today, I don’t really think they’ve got anything to do with Brexit at all. I mean, our economic problems are we are overspending, over-borrowing, over-taxing, over-regulated, and far too much being spent on working age welfare. Those are a set of problems that have nothing to do with Brexit. We need a government that actually gets spending under control, gets taxes down, helps entrepreneurs, deals with our borrowing problem, reforms the welfare, and massively deregulates so we can build houses, build infrastructure. None of those have got anything to do with Europe. So that’s sort of, in a way, that’s my point. Do we really want to go into another decade-long debate about whether we should be in or out, when actually we should deal with our own problems while making the partnership model work?”
“I fought the campaign to stay in on an amended basis, and I obviously wanted to win that campaign. I was desperately disappointed that we lost that campaign. But I’m a democrat, a believer in democracy. We voted to leave, and I think the right thing now is to try and become, you know, not just neighbors, partners, and friends of the EU, but the best friends, the best neighbors, the best partners. And I think we can make that work”
Story by @ChaplainChloe: https://t.co/gKPvWA9LAu
Question of the day.
Who do these belong to?
A. Wes Streeting (Labour’s Defence Secretary)
B. Angus MacIntyre (@reformparty_uk Shadow Armed Forces Minister).
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