Tories bananas? Splits

[ParadigmShifter]

Looks like around 70 tories have ruled themselves out of being considered for a job by voting for a referendum about leaving Europe, despite being warned they would be sacked, ineligible for jobs and/or severely bummed in the gob if they vote for the referendum plan.



Is this a return to the split Tory party of the Major years?

EDIT: UK politics thread, of course

EDIT2: And a MORI poll shows 96% of UK voters don't consider Europe a big issue at the moment, before we have any junior Farrages posting

 

[Quackers]

It was over 80 Tory MPs who defied the government's line, good on them, Cast-Iron Dave deserves some aggro . I've read that 25 Labour MPs have also voted for a referendum too, the British public deserves to have its say, .
From a MORI poll too:

When YouGov have asked people directly about Britain’s relationship with Europe they’ve found around 10% of people who support a more integrated Europe, 13-17% happy with the status quo, 33-40% supporting a less integrated Europe with more powers returned to the UK, 23-29% in support of total withdrawal from the EU.

Oooo marvellous. Looks like public opion is on my side you old reactionary

There is an awful lot of goodnews for eurosceptics here: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/category/mori

 

[kristopherb]

However, it is also important to note that while very few people care about Europe presently it is not incapable of being a salient issue.

I'm not 100% sure why this is a issue ATM. Either its me missing something (no TV) or its a election thing (attempts to remember the last election........)

I assume Quackers wants "a less integrated Europe".

 

[amadeus]

Gee, I can't possibly imagine why Britons would be hesitant to further integrate itself with Italy and Greece.

 

[aelf]

I think Britain leaving Europe would benefit me. No more free passes for Europeans looking for work in the UK. Not that that's going to happen, though, sigh.

 

[useless]

We should stay in the EU, a vast majority of our trade is with fellow EU countries. We'd be fools to leave, and we'd be economically screwed if we did as well.

 

[Tee Kay]

An expulsion from the EU would be funnier.

 

[useless]

Apparently, Sarkozy had a heated convo with Cameron, basically telling him to shut up.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I'd welcome the UK temporarily leaving the EU.
Less division, less US influence, more power to Germany.
And after their economy tanks they'll reapply and we'll take them on the condition that they promise to stop being so anti-EU and from time to time don't take the US position on something.

Apparently, Sarkozy had a heated convo with Cameron, basically telling him to shut up.

I don't like Sarko, but that was overdue.

 

[Truronian]

Most people in the UK want all the privileges and economic benefits of being in the EU without any of the responsibility or economic costs, because the majority of people don't understand what being part of the EU actually means. Giving people who are ignorant of the full picture (and I include myself in that category) a referendum on membership would be an action from which no good could come. I expect a lot of the rebels are merely trying to score points with the general public by opposing this motion.

 

[Leoreth]

I suppose things won't get easier in the UK/EU relations because it looks like the continental members are slowly moving towards limiting the financial sector on a European level, which would hurt the City of London most.