Cameron: British Support For EU Membership is "Wafer Thin"

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British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has promised to hold a referendum on British membership of the European Union by the end of 2017 if the Conservatives win a majority in the next general election, has said that British support for E.U. membership is "wafer thin."

From the BBC:

British people's support for staying in the European Union is currently "wafer thin", David Cameron has said.

The prime minister argued that his promise to renegotiate powers with Brussels before holding an "in-out" referendum had the "overwhelming support" of the public.

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Comments

[Eduard van Haalen]

Why do I somehow not trust this guy? Promising a referendum *after* getting re-elected is BS. Once he's elected, he'll say he has a mandate to negotiate some kind of entrance into the EU and the press will praise his statesmanship in cancelling the referendum - a necessary and understandable populist gesture to appease the UKIP teabaggers.

[Zeb]

he'll say he has a mandate to negotiate some kind of entrance into the EU

?

The UK is already in the EU.

[Juice]

Not fully.

[Zeb]

It is. Just not in the Euro.

[Homple]

In farther than the tip, that's for sure.

[Cytotoxic]

Cameron is totally full of shit in all ways every way. Imperfect as they are, UKIP is the only option in the UK.

[Almanian!]

You know who else offered something that was "wafer thin"...

[Swiss Servator, Sail Genfersee]

Damn you!

[Hugh Akston]

Jesus?

[William of Purple]

I don't get the reference to Sevo's gardener.

[Hyperion]

The Girl Scouts?

[Almanian!]

+yum

[trshmnstr]

The Keebler Elves?

[Hugh Akston]

Oliver Chase?

[cavalier973]

IHOP?

[Hillary's Clitdong]

Brett Favre?

[Ted S.]

Intel?

[Swiss Servator, Sail Genfersee]

You know who else discussed a thin wafer?

[Bam!]

Almanian!?

[Lord Humungus]

PWNED!

[Swiss Servator, Sail Genfersee]

Aye 🙁

[Winston]

Is the same public that wants to nationalize energy and rail?

[CatoTheElder]

One of the few good things about the EU Treaty is that it explicitly allows for secession.

[Cdr Lytton]

My cynical side says that's meaningless unless it's actually used.

[Hyperion]

Well, what are they going to do if the Limeys, or any of their other members secede, anyway? Invade that country?

[Hugh Akston]

Jos? Manuel Barroso will grow a chinbeard and gravely declare that the Union must be preserved, no matter how many men have to die to do so.

[Hyperion]

The libertarian anarchists have already been outed on this one, as only having a problem with law enforcement because they hate minorities and womens. Well, at least that's consistent with the reason for everything else that they do, so I guess the science is settled.

[Winston]

You're disputing settled science? What are you, a creationist?

[Winston]

Also Wrong thread.

As for your comment itself well it does show how statist the progs really are. With Real TOP MEN in charge then the state is infallible and all minority groups benefit. With a Dem in the White House then a Secret Police with gays, women and blacks can't be all that bad now can it? How could oppose any of that without being a racist socon bigot?

[Hyperion]

My point was that the progs just call everyone who disagrees with them a racist, doesn't matter if there is any logic behind that accusation, they just go with it. It's all they have.

The science is settled fits right in with that. Anyone who tries to debate climate change agenda with them, they just say something like 'Well, I guess I'll have to go with what the scientist think, the science is settled'. Therefore, no one can challenge carbon taxes or green energy subsidies, or they are an anti-science extremists who hate the children of the earth.

Sort of like calling everyone a racist. Who can disagree that racism is bad. You're a racist, so no need to debate you on this topic.

[Almanian!]

This is exactly the kind of argument I'd expect from a racial denialist.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Before we get too worked up, wafers might be something different in the UK. They don't speak American over there.

[Episiarch]

So no one makes a Monty Python Meaning of Life reference? You all disgust me! What kind of web site is this?!?

[Winston]

And Now for Something Completely Different?

[trshmnstr]

The kind that will let you down one last time.

[Swiss Servator, Sail Genfersee]

The Cleveland Browns of sites?!

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

The kind that gets convicted of making gratuitous, sexist jokes in a moving picture? (NSFW, surprisingly)

[Episiarch]

You NutraSweeted the link, dude. Or else your video got deleted really fast.

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLctf4o6feQ

[Episiarch]

The funniest part of that clip is that Graham Chapman was actually gay.

[Brett L]

I had an elaborate analogy with the waiter standing in for the EU and the Brits "exploding" with one wafer-thin rule change, but it was pretty tedious. I thought someone else would do better.

[Hugh Akston]

Nobody does tediousness better than Epi.

[Episiarch]

That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me in a long time, Hugh. Thanks. I had no idea you were so kind. Also, I hate you. In a good way.

[Almanian!]

Did you actually read upthread, or just make another stupid assumption.

OH WAIT - CLEARLY THE LATTER....

Almanian!|11.4.13 @ 1:34PM|#

You know who else offered something that was "wafer thin"...

reply to this

Swiss Servator, Sail Genfersee|11.4.13 @ 1:34PM|#

You know who else discussed a thin wafer?

reply to this

[Swiss Servator, Sail Genfersee]

I didn't make it better...

*runs off sobbing*

[Almanian!]

No, no SSSG!

We were two...

two...

two hints in ONE!

[Zeb]

I just figured it went without saying. Is there another reference involving "wafer thin"?

[Raston Bot]

Anyone else notice an uptick in beards the past few months?

[William of Purple]

I blame the Duck Dynasty.

[Raston Bot]

It's a perfect storm of Duck Dynasty, cooler temps, GoT, Mo-vember, and Zac Brown.

[Hugh Akston]

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who have noticed ticks in their beards, but they refuse to shave the damn things anyway.

[Brett L]

Only the bath-dodgers. Hipsters and citizens of the world. And lumberjacks.

[Almanian!]

And the damned Red Sox.

[Brett L]

Nah, they all shaved, because they're not real bearders.

[Almanian!]

Posers!

/Edgar Allan Poe

[The Rt. Hon. Serious Man, Visc]

I've grown one since becoming leaving my job. Girls seem to like it.

[Brett L]

I try really hard to shave during the summer, but I'm too lazy.

[Almanian!]

For me, the only thing worse than shaving is not shaving. I really hate shaving...but I hate whiskers even more.

Good thing I'm not a cat or a dog, i guess...

[Zeb]

There is a thing called trimming. Which is generally faster and less uncomfortable than shaving and keeps your face hair where you want it.

[jesse.in.mb]

Pft, I had a beard before it was cool.

/hipster

[Zeb]

I had a beard as soon as I had to start shaving more than once a week. Who wants to do that?

[jesse.in.mb]

I had to be clean shaven when I taught English in Korea. It was miserable. I think I'm working on year three of my current beard.

[Zeb]

Fuck, I just thought about how long it has been since I have been clean shaven. 15 years, I think.

[Zeb]

Winter's coming. Beards are warm.

[Anonymous Coward]

The English have always understood that the continentals are a financial burden on them and the EU is nothing but Franco-German hegemony carried out with Euros instead of artillery.

[Almanian!]

I picture the Seven Dwarves marching off to the Chunnel singing,

EU
EU
I'm off to France
P U!

*whistle the tune*

[DRM]

The usual pro-EU line at this point is that half of the UK's foreign trade is in the common market.

Which is actually the best anti-EU argument. With the advantages of the common market on top of geographic proximity, the EU is only half Britain's overseas trade? That's a reason to get out and get Britain in a position to cut its own trade deals with the rest of the world. There's no excuse to burden the UK with stuff like the Common Agricultural Policy and the protectionist interests of Italian manufacturers when there's a whole world to do trade deals with.