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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
If Ukip do become seriously threatening and won enough seats at the next election, they would align themselves to the Labour party.....and we would have another 'hobbled' coalition government where the two parties pull in different directions.
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Surely Cameron's move has effectively blown UKIP out of the water. Therir popularity is based on people wanting an IN/OUT referendum. If the Conservatives are now promising that, it will bring back most of the wavering Tory voters who had switched to UKIP?
But what are these 'concessions' that Cameron wants to renegotiate before going for a referendum? Presumably he'll be arguing that the concessions should apply to ALL countries rather than just Britain, because why should Britain be considered a special case? And what if the other countries don't want them? Answer: he won't get them. And he'll be forced to hold an IN/OUT referendum which he has promised, and which will produce an OUT vote. Then what?
To extend the analogy of the French foreign minister, Britain will be like a player joining a football club and asking to play rugby - then asking for a transfer, but being left to rot in the reserves because he's signed a lifetime contract.....
....or being allowed to leave on condition he buys himself out of the contract which will cripple himself financially for life!