Never Again (Plan B)

Earlier today David Cameron held a press conference explaining what the Conservatives position on Europe was now that all the 27 member states have ratified the Lisbon Treaty.

promising use the slogan “never again” when campaigning for the General Election, DC laid out plans for a British Sovereignty Act designed to ensure the supremacy of UK law over EU law whereby future governments would be forced to consult the British people in a referendum before handing away any future powers to the European Union. He also pledged to repatriate powers already lost to the EU in three key areas: the Charter of Fundamental Rights, employment and criminal justice.

It went well, DC trod a sensible eurosceptic line. But while it seems to have pleased Tory MPs, most Conservative commentators, plenty of activists and voters I get the feeling it didn’t please the core eurosceptics. You know. The ones who flirt with UKIP far too much. I honestly don’t know what DC could have done to please them short of declaring his intention to take Britain out of the European Union entirely.

Sadly, it didn’t seem to please Daniel Hannan who has resigned from his frontbench Euro legal affairs brief.