As the prime minister finally puts his negotiating position in writing,what does he want and will he get it?David Cameron has just reach back from a mini-summit of Nordic countries in Iceland where – and don’t ask me why – the leaders were presented with some Lego bricks and challenged to turn them into a duck. The prime minister of Denmark excelled at this task. Perhaps he had an unfair advantage. The British contestant struggled. The Icelandic prime minister, the splendidly named Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, and ungallantly revealed that Mr Cameron’s effort “looked more like a dog”. The cheap crack to get – so get it I will – is that whether the prime minister makes a dog’s dinner of trying to turn a handful of plastic bricks into something resembling a duck,how is he going to get a success of his attempt to keep Britain inside the European Union on renegotiated terms?That involves constructing a deal acceptable to the 27 other members of the EU, managing the volcanic passions of the Conservative party and winning the battle for public opinion when it comes to selling continued membership in the referendum he is pledged to call before the terminate of 2017. Thats a lot of moving parts.
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Source: theguardian.com