Britain 'sleepwalking to EU exit', warns Labour

According to the Observer Poll published yesterday 56% of us are wide awake and walking briskly to the exit.

If Britain is moving so briskly towards the exit, why is there still no date for the referendum? Just as 56%+ (seems a little conservative to me) of Britons want to exit, so most Europeans want the situation resolved one way or the other. All this posturing and complaining is not helping anyone.

The EU budget should be increased, not decreased. Member contributions should be decreased, halved, and compensated by taxes directly levied by the EU and by debt only issued by the EU and not guaranteed by member states. There needs to be a growth initiative, so there needs to be an increase of the budget. The general austerity imposed by Germany is economically absurd and harmful and in reality only serves one purpose: to tighten the grip of Mrs Merkel on the EU. She wants to turn whatever payments have long been agreed upon into extraordinary favours granted by her person. Blackmail (also known as "conditionality") is her only means of power. Like Cameron, who pampers to euroskeptic and traditionally anti-French sentiment to mask the failures of his austerity, Merkel is only and essentially interested in one thing: to get as much power as possible and to keep it for as long as she can. Merkel is not a democrat or a freedom fighter: in her youth she collaborated with the Stasi and prudently kept clear from the real democrats she always abhorred, like current President Joachim Gauck. Merkel needs German euroskepticism to keep power: indeed she needs a strong CSU, the ultra-conservative Bavarian sister-party of her CDU, so that the CDU-CSU remains the largest party, which constitutionally gives her a right to remain chancellor-even if everyone already knows that she will be ruling with the Socialist SPD. Merkel does not have an interest in fighting against euroskepticism: Merkel has an interest in absorbing euroskepticism.
I hope France has the courage to veto that budget. I hope it has the courage to undertake every possible action in German interior politics in order to foil Merkel's reelection: especially forcing votes on the Greek bailout, doing whatever it takes to weaken the CSU, etc.

Miliband fanning the flames of this explosive controversy among the british conservatives has apparently succeeded in forcing Cameron to perform ever wider splits in these budget negociations, and I guess it will be a key factor of Labour's winning strategy in the next election. The EU issue has become such a bone of contention in Britain, it's going to durably divide up the british tories and make sure Labour will long be reigning over the UK, within the EU.