GP Taylor: Who do you think you are kidding on EU, Mr Cameron?

I HAVE always been a fan of Dad's Army and cannot wait to see the latest cinema version that was filmed in Yorkshire. I admired the way in which a bunch of old men would happily give their lives to protect a land that they loved. They stood on the cliffs of Dover to stand firm against the looming threat coming from Europe.
Prime Minister David Cameron (right) meets with European Council president Donald Tusk at 10 Downing Street.Prime Minister David Cameron (right) meets with European Council president Donald Tusk at 10 Downing Street.
Prime Minister David Cameron (right) meets with European Council president Donald Tusk at 10 Downing Street.

Yet, in the world of David Cameron, this is definitely not the case. Like the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, he is on a frantic tour of Europe, obsessed with trying to appease an ever growing aggressive power and sell his half-hearted attempts of renegotiation of our EU membership.

The Prime Minister seems to believe that he can fool us all into thinking that he will win major concessions in Europe when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. Cameron only offered a referendum on Europe on the brink of an election he thought he would never win. It was a sop to all the voters that he was haemorrhaging to Ukip.

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The worrying thing is that I do not think Cameron knows himself what he really wants when it comes to EU change. He has been quoted as saying he did not want to reveal full details of his negotiating hand before serious discussions get under way. To me that is political speak for “whatever I get out of this I will say I wanted in the first place and therefore have won a great victory”.

He is a Europhile with a heart committed to being part of the monster that is slowly taking over our country. As a Yorkshireman, I know a “con” when I see one.

In a typically political manner, this top Tory is desperately trying to convince us that he has all of our interests at heart. What Cameron doesn’t seem to understand is that a growing number of people are sick and tired of being treated as imbeciles by politicians.

One of the main points on his agenda is wanting to stop migrants claiming benefits during their first four years in the UK. This is a policy that so many people agree with. It is morally wrong to think that people who have paid taxes for years should financially support those coming here for economic reasons.

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Why should someone be allowed to reside in another country just because they will get better housing and free money? If people want to come here to work, then fair enough but they shouldn’t be automatically entitled to benefits. It is estimated that £30m is being paid in child benefits to children not living in the UK. That is a fortune being lost from our economy.

Even in this, the Tory leader is doomed to fail. The EU will never allow such a thing. The best he will get is an emergency brake on welfare, if he can prove the welfare system is being overwhelmed. This will not be the decision by our Parliament, but by Brussels. It will be promised after the referendum when the EU will have even more disregard to British needs if we vote to stay in.

Everything that Cameron is trying to negotiate is jam tomorrow with no promise of it actually happening. He gloriously misses the point that the whole of EU renegotiation should be based on British sovereignty and the right to control our borders and make our own laws.

However, the EU stands for ever closer union and the setting up of a single currency super- state. Richer countries will help the poorer ones. There will be no borders and no control of movement. It is ludicrous that the Prime Minister should even try to negotiate with people who already know that he lacks the courage to take his country out of Europe. He has already admitted that he wants to stay and those who he now deals with know his mutterings about leaving the EU is just political chitter chatter with no substance.

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Cameron should be pressing for complete border control, a Parliament that cannot be overruled by foreign bureaucrats and full sovereignty for our country. It has to be remembered that we have never actually voted to be a part of a European super-state. The original vote in 1975 was based on us joining a free trade club called the Common Market. Since then, we have had a European Parliament that is taking us over by stealth.

It is time for the Prime Minister to come clean on what his demands actually are. We are at a time in history when the nature of British society is 
at stake.

I greatly fear that if David Cameron fails in renegotiation Britain will be overwhelmed by economic migrants and our culture will be lost forever. Our country will become an overcrowded, broken and divided land and the uniqueness of our way of life forgotten.

Europe is in a perpetual state of crisis with rising unemployment, corruption and violent crime that officials deny has anything to do with immigration. I would rather put the future of Britain into the hands of Dad’s Army than the politicians and civil servants of a corrupt Europe.

GP Taylor is a writer and broadcaster and can be followed @GPTaylorauthor.