Sentences with phrase «british eurosceptic»

Some German youths are looking to British Eurosceptic leader Nigel Farage for inspiration in the lead - up to the European parliamentary elections on 25 May.

As Greek citizens lose their jobs, the German people empty their coffers and all of the European peoples fear an uncertain future, it would be foolish for British eurosceptics to look upon the gathering storms in Europe with glee.

Not exact matches

Contingency plans for the collapse of the euro should be talked about more openly to «soften the blow» to the British public, a leading eurosceptic has said.

This had the effect of defusing the European issue in the domestic arena and of closing down debate about Britain's place in the EU and creating the space for Eurosceptic sentiments and referendum demands to flourish in British political discourse.

These social identities were mobilised by the Eurosceptic ideology of British exceptionalism, superiority and sovereignty.

Moderate revolutionaries, or eurosceptics, as we once called them, suddenly found themselves pushed into the ranks of europhiles; traditional pillars of the British society, whether judges or MPs, found themselves castigated as traitors to the true revolution, which - ironically - was carried out in the name of returning to British traditions.

But it is worth noting that, as an ideologue distrustful of government and committed to British sovereignty, he has at least been a consistent Eurosceptic.

Thatcher's Bruges speech is looked upon fondly in the mythology of Conservative Eurosceptics as the moment when the British Prime Minister, handbag in full swing, stood up to the creeping European super-state.

Many of those backing eurosceptic John Baron's amendment to the Queen's Speech regretting the lack of an EU referendum bill believe the UK will not be able to secure any agreement from European leaders on a fresh set of terms for British membership - making Cameron's strategy of attempting to seek agreement unrealistic.

However, I do think any Eurosceptic will end up in in reactionary territory were they to take Powell seriously as a prophet on the substance of what «national independence» means, not least because this was already a self - professed reactionary project in 1968 (with Powell believing the British Nationality Act of 1948 was the root of all of our troubles).

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britainover the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

In particular they want Cameron to say that he will advocate «Brexit» in case his negotiation strategy fails and he does not obtain the reforms to achieve what Eurosceptics vaguely define as «restoring British sovereignty».

He later became The Daily Telegraph's Brussels correspondent, with his articles exerting a strong influence on growing Eurosceptic sentiment among the British right - wing.

Conservative eurosceptic MP Bernard Jenkin gives his take on the changed state of play over Europe after last week's British veto, on the Today programme:

Either way, recalling how recently Miliband, Balls, Alexander et al forced the European ConstitutionLisbon Treaty on the British people without the referendum they had promised, I find it difficult to subscribe to the idea that they and their Labour colleagues are suddenly all now committed eurosceptics.

But the past month of British politics has seen local and European elections produce massive gains for the Eurosceptic anti-immigration UKIP, the publication of a report on the gradual rise in levels of racial prejudice in Britain over the past ten years and a scare about Islamic extremism in British schools.

At the European level, the party allied itself with moderate Eurosceptics such as the British Conservative Party, the Czech Civic Democrats and the Polish Law and Justice, and sits on the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament.

British MEPs 2007During a ceremony for the new Lisbon Treaty, British UKIP and eurosceptic Tory MEPs led a noisy protest which got out of hand.

The MEP's have to accept that the majority of the British electorate (and especially Tory voters) are Eurosceptic.

MPs have also been angered by a media briefing note sent to them at 6 am claiming that as a lifelong eurosceptic, Mr Corbyn was «far closer to the centre of gravity of the British public».

Following a YouGov poll showing that the deeply eurosceptic UKIP holds a comfortable lead among those who intend to vote on May 22 comes a report from the Electoral Reform Society which reveals the extent of the rift between the European parliament and the British people.

The PM made his EU referendum pledge to quell his angry backbenchers, who believe themselves to represent the views of a Eurosceptic British public.

Eurosceptic backbenchers have secured a pledge from David Cameron not to put any British money towards the bailout of Greece.

In Europe, the British prime minister is friendless and isolated after he sacrificed a place at the dominant centre - right grouping to form an alliance of fringe elements — all in a knee - jerk bid to satisfy his own eurosceptics.

Labour Eurosceptics of the 1970s feared that the Common Market was a big «capitalist club» that would undo the steps towards British socialism — not everyone thought that was an oxymoron at the time — that Labour had made since the great post-war administration of 1945 - 51.

David Cameron has broken new ground on Europe by suggesting British withdrawal from the EU is «imaginable», aligning himself with the fiercely Eurosceptic Boris Johnson.

It was the most Eurosceptic speech ever delivered by a British prime minister (because it is the first to openly canvas the idea of Britain leaving).

The Ukip leader told Good Morning Britain there was «an element» of David Cameron's planning which suggested an important debate on British involvement had been held to disrupt the eurosceptics» meeting.

A British constitutional court might help not just to assuage the fears of Mr Johnson and Conservative Eurosceptics.