Advantage lies......?

David Cameron's gesture to defend the financial institutions of the city of London's, institutions that helped get us into this financial mess in the first place  may be the biggest mistake of his political career, but more importantly the future of Britain in the eyes of not only our European partners, but the world. Something that we may never be able to recover from. Whilst in the future the other 26 leaders will be feasting together at the same table he will be dining on his own, and for more years than are good for Britain. His gesture may well turn out to be a futile one. Perhaps he should remember that the advantage always lies with those on the inside, and any influential advantage he may have had he's thrown away, and he may well now feel the cold shoulder from Europe for years to come, and any co-operation in other areas may be hard for him. Perhaps Nick Clegg who is pro-Europe should have told him that if he used his veto and left Britain alone and out on a limb with the rest of Europe, that he would withdraw the Lib Dems support for the coalition government and force a general election. With Cameron's attitude we are loosing what little influence we once had in the world let alone Europe. We even have people like Bernard Jenkins MP and Lord Oakshot of the Lib Dems disagreeing on policy openly on Newsnight so no body knows which way to jump but if Cameron has jumped the wrong way then Britain is in serious trouble and we can't rely on Europe to help us in the future. The really sad part is that Sarkozy has stitched Cameron up. Perhaps Cameron should have told Sarkozy that he might have supported the financial proposes if France was prepared to re-think the Common Agricultural Policy that has always been to Frances advantage and seen what Sarkosy would have said to that? I think that there would have been a resounding Non. So much for unity Europe has always to put up with what does best for France. As for the Germans I do have a little sympathy they are providing most of the finance and therefore have certain rights to lead, as for France their financial institutions are in as much trouble as the PIGS.