Tucholsky
Full Member
Yes I remember the famous David Cameron EU welfare rights negotiation.Wibble, Wibble. You've still got the pencils stuck up your nose, haven't you? Take them out now and smell the aroma of democracy. For that's what kicked in, but you know, that already, don't you
Here's how Oliver Wright summed up Cameron's renegotiation (clearly on the same page as you. Well done!) of our membership terms which as agreed by all 28 states in February 2016.
The problem was, in a referendum here, most people didn't like it and the rest, as they say, is history.
I'm sure Cleisthenes didn't specifically start the old 'power to the people' bandwagon rolling in 508 BC with this in mind, but it was jolly kind of him to do so, otherwise we might have all ended up being bossed around by faceless unelected bureaucrats.
On a different note, it's good we're back to having a soft one, isn't it? What a ninny Ursula is.
When he demanded the right from the EU tu curb EU citizens welfare rights, a right that the UK already had, but never used and Cameron had no intention to use, as his policy was to attract EU citizen for the UK workforce.
So he went to Brussels to negotiate just to score a win for his own and party's PR. And he failed to succeed, cause a majority of other EU states had no interest, that member states could further dilute EU citizens welfare rights in other member states...