David Cameron has scrapped plans to deliver a long-awaited speech on Britain's future in the European Union after abandoning a trip to the Netherlands as the Algerian hostage crisis worsened.
Downing Street indicated that the prime minister would deliver his speech, in which he planned to warn that Britain could "drift towards the exit" unless powers are handed back from the EU, once the hostage crisis had ended. The postponement was announced shortly before the prime minister was due to fly to meet the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, before his speech in Amsterdam.
Some Tories were surprised that No 10 took so long to abandon the trip. Downing Street had acknowledged the gravity of the crisis in Algeria on Thursday morning by announcing that arrangements were being made for the prime minister to chair a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee from The Hague on Friday.
Ed Miliband, who was privately suggesting that the prime minister appeared to be putting the interests of Conservative Eurosceptics above his duties to deal with a security crisis, had earlier said that the prime minister had spent six years preparing a speech that will cause five years of uncertainty.
Cameron had been due to warn his fellow European leaders that British membership of the EU could be put at risk unless its membership terms are changed. "If we don't address these challenges, the danger is that Europe will fail and the British people will drift towards the exit," Cameron was due to say in the speech to an audience of business leaders in Amsterdam.
"There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.
"People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent."
5 comments:
Our current Plublic Sector and Local authorities etc are no longer fit for purpose. THey employ more and mor staff to do less and les. Whilst the private sector has usiuall achieved 5% year on year productivity gainns the oposite occures in the public sector ie it has fallen 5% a year
Well let's see which obvious problem needs "extraordinary measures"? Gosh, that would be unemployment. I'm doing your work for you.
As for wage increases increasing inflation get out of town. Inflation is being imported and down to p**s poor regulation of utilities, transport and oil producers.
That's even before we get to the criminal bankers he defends.
I am trying to think of reasons why these inflationist monetary cranks should not face the same fate as Admiral Byng.
I have no compelling reasons to object to a firing squad for those who debase the currency, any suggestions?
Inflation will destroy civilisation and the whole basis of economic activity. Perhaps they know not what they are dong.
Capitalism is now a Communist Dictatorship where a broken and fast collapsing financial system is not allowed the luxury of insolvency.Too big to fail and too big to liquidate.You talk about dislike as if the system is doing its job,for the few it is for the many it has totally failed and the reason is that the State backed monopoly of money and its creation has become the only thing holding up capitalism at all but like most on here people like you are unable to grasp the reality of the new collapsing landscape.Capitalism is now consuming itself to oblivion.
Local government is 70% funded by central gov. the balance being made up from council tax.
So force councils to cut spending by 30% by scrapping council tax.
Council tax is like a never ending mortgage.
Getting rid of it will give a huge boost to growth.
If anyone says that council tax is an essential part of democracy ask them to name their local councillor.
90% can't.
Just think of all the things you could do if you didn't have that damn council tax to pay!
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