Sentences with phrase «not europhile»

Scotland is, of course, more pro-EU than England - though certainly not Europhile.

Not exact matches

As a europhile British ex-pat who once firmly believed in the European dream but now sees it for the dystopian nightmare it has become, I urge them not to waste it.

If I was a europhile I would despair at the fact that even our leading supporter isn't prepared to make a positive case for the project.

As Corbyn can not convincingly pretend to be a paid - up Europhile in the mould of Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, the argument about Brexit undermining worker's rights appears to be his best bet for firing up his own side.

Not everyone is as enamoured with Europe as the Europhiles in the Labour Party.

A vote for the Tory Europhile MEPs is a vote for President Barroso who thinks that British voters don't matter.

The leader of the opposition quoted the renowned europhile, Michael Heseltine, on the matter: «To commit to a referendum about a negotiation that hasn't begun, on a timescale you can not predict, on an outcome that's unknown, where Britain's appeal as an inward investment market would be the centre of the debate, seems to me like an unnecessary gamble.»

With many of Labour's most eloquent Europhiles, not least his brother, David, on the sidelines, Miliband's shadow cabinet contains voices ranging from the nuanced Europhilia of Douglas Alexander to the more ambivalent stance of Ed Balls, who has lumped Cameron and European leaders together under the general heading of «catastrophic».

Damian Green MP, the former Conservative Home Office minister and leading Europhile, said that Mr Grayling had walked the «tightrope of overtly breaking» the rules Prime Minister David Cameron had set down last week about what ministers could and could not say ahead of the referendum.

Eric Pickles is probably te only europhile in the conservative party that isn't universally loathed by the grassroots.

But, in reality, it appears that when Labour said our Eurosceptic promises were all hot air, they were right; that when Heseltine said that in government every Conservative Prime Minister is Europhile, he was right; that when UKIP said Conservatives were not to be trusted on Europe, they were right; that when I and others said that the Conservative Party had changed, and that Cameron and Hague were genuinely convicted Eurosceptics who understood what must be done and would not let us down, we were wrong.