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Originally Posted by Roland
It's hard to say what the Conservative Party's true agenda is.
I think they're more Eurosceptic than they will publicly admit....
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David Cameron has:
1. Banned anti-EU Conservative MPs from sitting in the Shadow Cabinet (although pro-EU MPs can become members of it and are in it)
2. Insulted anti-EU UKIP in comments he made in April 2006 - he chose UKIP as his first target for public criticism of another political party
3. Praised EU leaders on his visit to Brussels where he met Barroso (EU boss) and, where he allegedly met europhile Mandelson too.
4. Failed to pull the UK Conservative group of MEPs out of the pro-euro and pro-EU Superstate EPP group in Brussels (he promised in his Autumn 2005 campaign for the Conservative leadership that he would pull UK Conservatives out of the EPP group in the EU 'Parliament' "in months not years")
5. Dropped the Conservative Party pledge - backed by his three predecessors - to pull the UK out of the costly and damaging EU Common Fisheries Policy (angering the Scottish Conservative Party in doing so - some in it allegedly claimed that there was no consultation about the change of policy)