As Richard North points out:
Nothing, therefore, affects the central point – that agreement required QMV and we could not stop this bail-out fund going ahead (apart from the fact that it may well have been in breach of EU law ... but that's another story).
Politically it's preferable to get into a ruckus with Labour which will bore 99.9% of the country in a day or two - and then the issue will go away.
Much better than admitting that there was nothing any UK government could have done about it anyway.
That would be a bald admission of powerlessness which could certainly make a public impression.
But you can't hide an elephant for ever.
The Commission's next task is to stop the risk of poor election results for the German government from blowing euro-rescues off course. Green participants in a new German government would applaud Commission proposals to ban petrol-driven cars from cities, but how would they feel about more subsidies for Greece and Portugal ... assuming that they understood the issues and the implications?
How much better if EU policy could be divorced from those pesky elections. Then politicians in the subject nations could tell their subjects that the EU was nothing to do with them. Really.
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Agree John and what is just as important is what Cameron did not tell Parliament and the fact that in that omission and arguing with Darling is that he lied. For that he should be held in even further contempt!
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