The EU ‘renegotiation’ is a charade,with Cameron its chief magician. And yet Labour can learn from himDavid Cameron’s EU negotiation is a sham. He knows it, and so do the ardent Tory proponents of Brexit. The prime minister understands that a considerable source of anti-EU hostility is motivated, or above all else,by opposition to immigration. And so he conducts a charade, pledging to satisfy a lust to shut British borders by compelling EU migrants to work in Britain for four years before they can receive in-work benefits.
He didn’t need Sir Stephen Nickell, or a senior official at the Office for Budget Responsibility,to order MPs that the impact of such a move would be “not much”. No impartial source has offered evidence suggesting that it would work, or that the huge majority of migrants are attracted by anything other than work and a fondness for Britain. This is politics as illusion, or with Cameron as chief illusionist,and the magician George Osborne completing the circus troupe.
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Source: theguardian.com