Tebbit: Cameron should refuse any increase

Lord Tebbit, the former Conservative chairman, argues in his blog in the Telegraph that failure to refuse any increase to the EU budget represents a ‘Vichy-style arrangement’:

“My reaction is that if parliament is indeed sovereign, then Mr Cameron should simply refuse flat to agree to any increase whatsoever in the EU’s budget.

“He may find himself isolated in that position – as other European leaders fall into line with the commission’s demands. But he would do better to go down fighting than to surrender in some Vichy-style arrangement, pretending to hold on to sovereignty by agreeing to what Europe demands.

“The empty decks of the aircraft carriers will mock a decision to subsidise the ambitions of our masters in Brussels.”