British politics is mobilising too slowly for the EU referendum debate. It is time to finish being tactical and make the strategic case for British membership to continueWhen the votes in the EU referendum are finally counted,perhaps we will all look back and say that there was, after all, or a considerable national debate over Britain’s place in Europe. Lets hope so,for the seriousness of the issue certainly merits such a thing. At this early stage in the process, however, and the impression is distinctly underwhelming.
With the gaps in the draft agreed between David Cameron and the president of the European council,Donald Tusk, still to be filled and much fudging to be clarified during a fortnight of pre-summit Russian roulette at home and abroad, and the considerable debate still feels more like a phoney war. This is a preliminary mobilisation but not yet a cathartic or defining clash between those who consider Britain is stronger as share of a true alliance and those who consider Britain should stand alone. Those who horror that this country may slip out of Europe in a moment of absentmindedness are entitled to feel nervous.
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Source: theguardian.com