A couple of hours ago, I looked at The Telegraph. This article, “Tory demands on EU powers are impossible for Coalition, says Nick Clegg” was featured on the front page. It has since disappeared from the front page.
Could it be that it was removed because most of the 500+ comments are anti-EU and anti-Clegg?
Boadicea's Chariot 
Everyone is anti-EUSSR (except for the pollies who laugh all the way to the bank).
The authorities in the UK are lying in the hope that if they say it often enough, people will believe them.
Yes, many people still think that the Common Market is a good idea, but not the EU.
It seems like something so far away and unrelated to most people’s lives that we have stopped caring. I may be cynical, but I suppose that the thing will be decided for us anyway, regardless…
Was this it?
The Deputy Prime Minister said that, for as long as his Liberal Democrats were in government, there would be no move towards leaving the EU.
In an intervention described as “very unhelpful” by senior Conservatives, Mr Clegg also forced Downing Street to water down Mr Cameron’s promise to bring back British powers from Brussels.
On Monday, Mr Cameron was rocked by a rebellion of 81 Conservative MPs who demanded a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.
As the Prime Minister tried to calm the row with warm words about the rebels, Mr Clegg offered a string of provocative comments, scorning the demands of the Conservative backbenches.
“Eurosceptics need to be quite careful for what they wish for, because if they succeed – and they won’t succeed, as long as I’m in government – to push this country towards the exit sign, let’s be clear: that [what] will be damaged is British families, British businesses, British jobs,” said Mr Clegg.
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Some Conservative backbenchers have called for a looser relationship with the EU, similar to that of Switzerland and Norway, countries that trade freely with the EU but are not members.
Mr Clegg dismissed that suggestion as fanciful.
“This government is not going to do something which is impossible anyway. You can’t just suddenly rewrite the rules on your own,” he said.
Mr Cameron on Monday tried to placate Conservative critics of the EU by promising “fundamental reform” of the union and the return of British powers from Brussels. Mr Clegg yesterday suggested that he could only accept more modest changes, in the rules on EU fisheries and other technical areas.
After private protests from Mr Clegg, Downing Street made clear that Mr Cameron had made his promises of reform not as Prime Minister, but merely as Conservative Party leader.
Mr Cameron’s pledge to repatriate power from Brussels was not official government policy, a spokesman for No 10 said.
“We have a coalition Government and some of the things that Conservative members of the Government are saying reflect Conservative Party policy and some things reflect the Government’s policy,” the spokesman said.
Despite Conservative frustrations at Mr Clegg’s intervention, Mr Cameron’s allies conceded that the Coalition deal with the Lib Dems was an obstacle to a tougher stance on Europe. “We’re not going to bring down the Coalition to renegotiate our relationship with Europe,” said a Downing Street source.
Many Conservatives, including ministers, have been critical of Mr Cameron’s decision to impose a three-line whip in Monday’s vote on whether to hold a referendum, and some backbenchers complained of heavy-handed tactics by whips.
Mr Cameron yesterday appeared to strike a more emollient tone, speaking warmly about the MPs who had defied his instructions.
“There’s no, on my part, no bad blood, no rancour, no bitterness,” he said. “These are valued Conservative colleagues. I understand why people feel strongly and we will go forward together and tackle the difficult decisions the country faces.”
Zen – it’s linked in Boadicea’s post. No need to cut and paste it again. 😦
If that is the article, it is still on the politics page of the TOL. Merely trying to be helpful.
So was I.
My fault really, I should have read Boadicea’s post fully before investigating. Sorry.
I was just amused that when I first looked it was advertised on the front page – and then slid away to obscurity!
No worries Zen 😀
As should Nick Clegg!
… and the rest of the pollies. Where is Guy Fawkes when you need him?
About 10 days away!
He is probably correct that there will be no renegotiation or repatriation of powers. Turkeys are not going to vote for Christmas. The only way forward is to leave the den of corruption as soon as possible!
Agreed, Feeg.
Neither Clegg nor Huhne nor anyone else in receipt of a pension from Brussels should have any say in the EU business, since they have a vested interest in the euro continuing.
The LibDems should also be done under the Trade Descriptions Act – neither liberal nor democratic.
I don’t think we are going to leave the EU any time soon, and I don’t think this is quite the time to re-negotiate I suspect the whole thing will fall apart anyway, although I don’t think we will be happy with the global impact of the failure of the euro. We have enough problems already, but at least we didn’t sign up for that particular idiocy.
I think this is the time to ignore EU diktats, when they don’t make any sense.