Nigel Farage: "Tell the truth, Mr Cameron. Your EU strategy is doomed to fail"

UKIP's outspoken leader  has a few home truths to fling in Cameron the liar's face.

Nigel Farage writing at TelegraphUK:

 ....."We have won allies to get powers back from Europe," said David Cameron on the last day of the Conservative Party conference.

Yet even as he spoke these words, José Manuel Barroso, the President of European Commission, was asked by the Telegraph in Brussels about the possibility of renegotiation of competences at EU level. Barroso’s response was a straightforward snub to Mr Cameron and a wholesale rejection of the very idea. Any fundamental discussion about the renationalisation of EU competence “was doomed to failure”, Barroso said. "What is difficult, or even impossible, is if we go for the exercise of repatriation of competences because that means revising the treaties and revision means unanimity. From my experience of 10 years, I don't believe it will work."

I admire Mr Barroso’s frank honesty. Yet again, we see European politicians telling the truth about the realities of the EU while the Prime Minister tries to mislead.

Which part of "No" does Mr Cameron not understand?
The Prime Minister thinks he is on an EU ship heading west, but in fact he is strolling westwards on board a ship that is heading east to "ever closer union". And it is Mr Barroso who is the captain, while Mr Cameron remains a muttering deckhand.

It is also about time that the pro-European establishment of this country was honest with us. There will be no change in our relationship with the EU before, during or after Mr Cameron’s futile “renegotiations”. The EU knows this, Mr Cameron knows this – and the people of this country need to know this too.
It is no use being promised a referendum on the never never. This country needs honesty and a choice now.

Remember the great fanfare about the Government’s EU Competence Review this year? It was the lynchpin of the Conservative campaign to convince people that David Cameron could exert change in Europe and had allies to back him up.
Well, in May this year, Angela Merkel and François Hollande both snubbed the Coalition’s much-heralded review of the relationship between Brussels and member states. Along with the vast majority of European governments, they refused to take part. But it doesn’t stop there.

Even the Tories' Coalition partners don’t hold out hope for any significant change. Speaking in mid September at a debate ...........