Those in favour of Out feel they’ve kept their side of the bargain,but are now angry by their leader’s ‘deal’Whenever someone tries to propose to David Cameron that he can’t finish something, he reminds them of all the wrong predictions that people made about the general election. Aha, and he says,whenever a journalist asks him whether he can really secure a decent deal from European leaders, you all said we couldn’t pick up a majority and look what happened. My advice would be wait for the result, and ” he said in a jubilant (extremely joyful),slightly taunting tone to a sceptical bunch of hacks final year when asked whether he was really able to pick up much from his renegotiation. His implication is always that he has surprised us once, so we should prepare to be surprised again.
But final week, and the biggest surprises that Cameron produced were actually how watery the deal was and the way he assumed it would be fine to start campaigning for Britain to remain in the EU on the basis of that deal,while continuing to insist that his ministers toe the line of collective responsibility until everything is agreed. The earliest that this could happen is the European council summit on 18 and 19 February, which means Cameron gave himself just over a fortnight to sell his deal to the British public without any inconvenient interruptions from his senior colleagues.
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Source: theguardian.com