Lisbon Treaty: Hague Admits that Tory “Opt-Out” Promises Are Nonsense
Tory foreign affairs spokesman William Hague has admitted that David Cameron’s promise of “negotiating opt-out clauses” from the Lisbon Treaty cannot be achieved.
Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hague (who famously flopped as Tory leader and was forced to resign), made it clear that his party would not do anything about the Lisbon Treaty and that if the Conservatives win the next election it will be “business as usual” with the EU.
The Tories have therefore accepted the Lisbon Treaty which will see Britain’s right to determine its own immigration, asylum, foreign affairs and defence policies lost to Brussels.
Last week Tory leader David Cameron admitted what had been known all along — that his “cast iron promise” of a referendum was nothing but a lie.
Mr Hague has, however, now gone even further than Mr Cameron. He told the BBC that “a Conservative Government would not get into a bust-up over its new policy of seeking to negotiate opt-outs in a number of areas of European policy.”
In other words, Mr Hague has confirmed that even the so-called “renegotiation” of certain parts of the Lisbon Treaty which Mr Cameron claimed as Tory policy, would not happen.
“We recognise it’s difficult and that’s why we say these are things to look for over the lifetime of a parliament,” Mr Hague told the BBC.
Referring to the war in Afghanistan — which his party also supports — Mr Hague said that given that problem, it would “not be in the national interest” to go “into a great crisis with the European Union the moment we are elected.”
Asked if that meant it would be “business as usual,” Mr Hague added: “We will be working with our European partners on climate change, on the single market, on free trade and so on. That will be our responsibility and we will do that very well.”
And so it goes: A complete and utter Conservative Party collapse before the European Union.
Only the British National Party has consistently opposed the EU and offers the only path by which British sovereignty can be returned to Westminster.
