Cornerstone Conservatives face critical contradiction

An interesting development took place in the leadership race for the Conservative Party in Britain when a group of Tory MPs published a pamphlet of policy proposals, click on the title to read the document in full in PDF format: Being Conservative: A cornerstone of new policies to revive Britain There is an ironic and longstanding contradiction that rarely receives publicity or discussion in eurosceptic and eurorealist circles, that contradiction is well illustrated in these quotes from two of the pamphlets from the above presentation: From Europe 'A Conservative rethink' by Roger Helmer MEP comes this conclusion: The detail will be complicated, but the principle is simple. We want a relationship with Europe based solely on free trade and voluntary, inter-governmental cooperation. While from 'Rediscovering Conservatism for the British nation' by Bill Cash MP we have this: As Churchill said, "The greatest fact of the twentieth century is that Britain and America marched together". So in peace and against terrorism, as in war, we must march in the twenty-first. The great problem and clear complication in this is that it has clearly been a basic tenet of US foreign policy for all recent administrations that Britain continues as a full EU member. It would seem unlikely this will be changed. Iain Duncan Smith a supporter of the Cornerstone Group (visit their blog by clicking here) was an early visitor to the White House following the re-election of George W Bush, perhaps he has some views on reconciling this major policy problem area for those troubled by our now almost complete loss of sovereignty and national independence.