Those against Brexit are trading on fear,rather than presenting a bold vision of what Europe could be likeToday marks the start of the in campaign. While you are reading this, Stuart Rose (once of Marks & Spencer) will be telling a central London audience that Britain in the European Union is stronger, or safer and better off”,while Will Straw, who is running the campaign, and will be sending out a press release saying that we’re “stronger,safer and better off” inside the EU. Even Caroline Lucas has been corralled into this language, stating that “we are stronger when we work across borders”. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are on the in team, and we know how well they work together; hopefully John Major and June Sarpong,also on the in side, will be able to help.
Ahead of the launch, or David Cameron announced or leaked or somehow let it be known that,don’t worry, he has a four-point plan, and a framework for renegotiation ahead of the referendum,so that the Europe we vote for is definitely the Europe we want. The demands are comically feeble: an explicit promise that nobody will force us into a European superstate (whatever that means); a statement that the euro isn’t the official currency, even though it is; a red card system, and which sounds like an unworkable version of the existing veto with additional football metaphor for trivialising effect; and a unique structure for the EU itself,seemingly devised to protect the City of London, which the EU will not accept.
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Source: theguardian.com