The British Conservatives face the risk of a separatist disaster

The British Conservatives face the risk of a separatist disaster

By @DominiqueReynie

A member of the EU since 1972, the UK has occupied an original “in and out” membership position, which has been grudgingly accepted. For the last few years, British Conservatives have adopted a more and more eurosceptical strategy, which could threaten the national status of this great ruling party, and eventually be very costly for the entire country.

We cannot ignore the UKIP’s europhobic pressure on the British electoral system, however, the Conservatives made the decision to speak like the populists, rather than denounce their bullshit. In 2009, the British Conservative MPs decided to leave the EPP group in order to found the ECR rival group leaning towards euroscepticism. Thus, the Conservative Party placed itself outside the heart of the European Parliament. Then, in May 2013, David Cameron himself took the risk of announcing, that upon re-election he would organise a referendum to decide whether or not to stay in the European Union.

Today, the Prime Minister believes he must fight the other heads of State and Government to prevent the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker as Chairman of the European Commission. However, had the Conservatives not left the EPP, they could have internally influenced the choice.

The British conservative European policy seems to be spinning out of control.Consider: that in order to prevent the EFD group, lead by UKIP, from becoming larger than the ECR, David Cameron was obliged to convince MPs to favour him over Farage’s group or Marine Le Pen’s group! Thereby withering the panache of the Conservative party with the addition of MPs coming from populist parties that one hopes never come to power in a European country: the Danish People’s Party (DPP), the true finns (TF), the MPs coming from the new German party hostile to the Euro, Alternativ für Deutschland (AFD), those from the strange “Bulgaria without censorship” or even MPs of the Sweden Democrats (SD), coming from a small far right organisation.We can see the absurdity of the situation when we consider the fact that the representatives of the Conservative party, which is fiercely opposed to the separatism of the Scottish National Party, are now allied with the Flemish separatists of the N-VA.The Conservative party is frequenting a bad crowd!

The British European policy in general and that of David Cameron in particular is stranger still in that it is obviously unable to contain the rise of the UKIP’s votes.So, between the 2009 and the 2014 European elections, the votes for Nigel Farage’s party have grown from 16,5% to 27,5%.

From a domestic point of view, Cameron’s anti-UKIP strategy is a fiasco. From a European point of view, we no longer know how to help Great Britain stay in the Union and to play the role that a country of its history should play.From an American stand point and elsewhere in the world, one now doesn’t exclude the possibility of seeing this great country lose its way and become economically and diplomatically marginalised.Sajjad Karim, the ECR candidate for the presidency of the European parliament believes that leaving the European union would not only cost Great Britain its growth but also its seat in the United Nations Security council and possibly, at the end, its territorial unity.