You all know where I stand. I believe national sovereignty is a principle we have to preserve whatever forces are marshalled against it and whatever inducements are offered to abandon it.
And very great forces are in the field to bring it down indeed.

The EU is the battleground and the immediate engagement in the battle is Brexit. I can't imagine whatever possessed Cameron to offer battle when he never really had to, but he has and now it's a fight of immense importance. If Brexit can't be won the EU will march on towards ever greater centralisation of power in Brussels and an ever greater diminution of national and personal independence. If it can't be won the model will be in place for further nation blocks in the future and ultimately the cherished dream of the left for world government.

The desperation of the anti-Brexit side has been increasing in recent weeks and apparatchiks from every international organ have been wheeled out to frighten the Brits with warnings of dire consequences of voting to leave.
And well might they be desperate. The latest YouGov poll puts the Out side ahead. Even dragging the hapless Obama out to campaign has not swayed people. Nor the threats from the IMF or any other of those left dominated sinecures.
The poll also finds that the Brits now trust Nigel Farage more than Cameron on Europe.

And why shouldn't they? Didn't the west spend 50 years and a lot of its treasure to see that national sovereignty was restored in Eastern Europe? Why would they bother only to see it taken away again in another form?

How come it takes me several paragraphs to say something that you manage to say in one sentence.

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wow Britain has had no say since it joined in 1973..

the Brits dont like what they see happening in Europe...and the mounting debts.. doesnt help...

obama wont be there though so he has no idea what will happen...

and I think the Pres of the USA more or less holding a gun to their heads..

will really piss off a lot of poms... so he maybe should have kept his opinion to himself..

Lookout, they're sending the reserves in.

Bill "shagger" Clinton and Tony "WMD" Blair are coming in from stage left to fight the good fight to stave off Brexit.

It's a free country . . . .except when you're answerable to Brussels.

According to the Guardian, David Cameron has now made conciliatory remarks about Trump.
He has said that Trump deserves respect for his success in the primary process and that he would be happy to meet him in the UK for a discussion.

I don't suppose this would have anything to do with a fear of Trump giving aid & comfort to Brexit supporters. With the current state of the polls, a dose of Trump rhetoric is the last thing  Cameron needs right now.

Desperation time for David Cameron, or should that be manic-depressive time.
Look at this for HYPERBOLE:

"British Prime Minister David Cameron has been mocked by Brexit campaigners after briefing the country’s media on a speech, to be delivered Monday, that insists if Britain leaves the European Union (EU), war may follow.

Mr. Cameron, speaking in London on Monday, is expected to say that Britain acts as a peacekeeper in Europe – and is one of the sole reasons the continent doesn’t go to war with itself.

He is also expected to invoke Sir Winston Churchill, the most respected Briton to have ever lived, in claiming that the war-winning prime minister would have disapproved of Brexit.

But Brexit campaigners have already pointed to Sir Winston’s statements, according to the Times, on Britain and a federal Europe (EU).

In May 1953, Sir Winston told the House of Commons: “We are not members of the European defence community, nor do we intend to be merged in a federal European system.”

(Breitbart London)

Ooooh, the bogeymen will come . . .

The British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC’s) coverage of issues surrounding the European Union (EU) and British membership of the EU shows significant bias in favour of a pro-EU, Remain stance, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has found.

The BBC has an overwhelming monopoly on news consumption in the UK, with 48 percent of Brits getting their news from BBC 1 alone. Yet detailed analysis by the IEA has revealed clear examples of what researchers at the free-market think tank have termed “bias by omission” – that is, skewing public discourse on a topic by not giving air-time to one side of the debate. And they say that the BBC has shown this sort of bias in spades when it comes to debate around the EU.

They point to the Today Programme which invited over 4,200 guests on to talk about EU themes over a decade, just 3.2 percent of whom were identifiably in favour of withdrawing from the EU.

Similarly, in an episode of Newsnight which focused exclusively on the EU question, 18 guests were in favour of remaining in the EU while just one advocated leaving.

“Clearly, the future of the UK’s position in the EU divides political parties and also the business community,” said Ryan Bourne, the author of the report, which features in a new book advocating privatisation of the BBC.

“But in its selection of guests, perhaps driven by the state of the political landscape at the time, the Today programme has at least exhibited a clear relative bias by omission against a significant strand of opinion.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/10/report-bbc-displays-clear-significant...