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“Cameron would leave Britain dangerously isolated” – Flint

Rumblings from Europe for the Tories yet again.

“A CONSERVATIVE Euro MP for the East of England has issued a scathing attack on Tory leader David Cameron, accusing him of ‘walking away’ from the party’s commitment to Europe.”

The report goes on to describe the Tory MEP, Christopher Beazley, as saying:

“I am terribly sad but I cannot watch my country head for the rocks, which it will do if Cameron becomes Prime Minister and has no allies in the major governments of the European Union.”

Meanwhile, Caroline Flint MP, Labour’s Europe Minister, responding to Mr Beazley’s comments, said:

“Christopher Beazley is right. David Cameron would leave Britain dangerously isolated at a time when international cooperation has never been more central to our national interest.

“Instead of standing up to the rightwing of his party, David Cameron is dragging the Conservatives to the fringes of Europe and he would do the same with Britain.

“Why would David Cameron step down from the table with President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel to sit with people on the fringes of Europe?”

Why indeed? So is this the start of a far more worrying realignment – a realignment that is perhaps far more frightening than anyone might ever have imagined? A realignment of the homophobic and racist politicians of the right from both home and abroad? A realignment of centuries gone by; centuries we believed quite banished from a Europe of science and reason?

Conservatism with a conscience? More like PR with a whiff of bigotry.

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