The EU Debacle: Eurosceptics, UKIP, Continental Europe and Cameron

The EU Debacle: Eurosceptics, UKIP, Continental Europe and Cameron

 

On the 23^rd of January 2013, UK Prime Minister David Cameron gave a bold and potentially risky speech in which he said:

 

“It is time for the British people to have their say…” “It is time to settle this European question in British politics. I say to the British people: this will be your decision.”[1]

 

He proposed a referendum (if re-elected, of course). A simple yes-no decision bestowed upon the British public as to whether the UK should stay an (integral) part of the European Union, or whether we should brave the weaving path to success alone.

Getting started: Triple-dip recession; Does it all lead back to Thatcher?

A revolutionary series of events in the 60s

The deindustrialisation of Britain began during the 1960s and, during the 1970s, was championed by the conservative Government and their then leader; Margaret Thatcher. Deindustrialisation is the absolute decline of employment in the manufacturing sector[1], a notion that at first glance seems regressive of the economy; so why was it desirable?