Blog - Richard Corbett MEP

UK Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber (visit his website at www.richardcorbett.org.uk)

Friday, December 09, 2005

Some choice quotes from David Cameron:
"I don't think it would ever come down to leaving the EU."
(David Cameron in the Telegraph, 22 October 2005)
"There is no doubt that a single currency would have a number of benefits. Transaction costs and exchange-rate risks would be eliminated and, as a result, trade would increase substantially."
(David Cameron, in a memo as special adviser to Norman Lamont, quoted in the Times, 15 December 2005)
"Also, a central bank and a single currency, if established in the right way, could help to make Europe a zone of permanently low inflation."
(Same memo)
“Enlargement of the EU is wholly welcome”
(David Cameron in the Commons, 13 February 2003)
“I have huge respect for countries in eastern Europe that have broken free of the communist yoke and I welcome them into the EU—I think that their joining is extremely important”
(David Cameron in the Commons, 9 December 2002)
And one from his recent opponent:
"Well, I mean - am I right wing? I'm in favour of low taxes, so I suppose that's right wing. I'm known to be a Eurosceptic, so I suppose that's right wing."
(David Davis, on Breakfast with Frost, 22 May 2006)
Does anyone think that rows on Europe in the Conservative party will fade away?

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