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Cameron compared to John Major after he agrees to EU treaty he vetoed last year
By Tim Shipman

Last updated at 8:52 AM on 31st January 2012

David Cameron was accused of appeasing Nick Clegg and was even compared to John Major yesterday as he waved through the same European treaty he had vetoed in December.
The Prime Minister said a deal to impose fiscal discipline on profligate EU nations was vital because the risks of doing nothing �are too great� for the world economy.
But furious Eurosceptics compared the Premier to his predecessor Mr Major after he agreed eurozone countries could use the European Court of Justice to police the rules of their new fiscal compact to prop up the single currency.
Seeing double: Cameron, right, has been compared to Major, left after he too signed a contentious treaty in 1992

The former Tory PM � now Sir John Major � was reviled by his party�s Eurosceptic wing for signing the Maastricht Treaty in February 1992.
Mr Cameron had repeatedly promised to prevent countries signing the new treaty from using the European institutions, which are part-funded by British taxpayers.

But yesterday � as he attended the 17th EU summit in just two years � he said the other 26 countries could press ahead with their plans to limit spending and deficits in the eurozone.
Eurosceptics believe allowing the ECJ to police the deal will allow the eurozone to ride roughshod over the single market, of which the UK is a part.
The Prime Minister threatened to go to court if that happens � but he said Britain agrees that the �new treaty focussed on tighter fiscal discipline� was essential.
He said: �We�re not signing this treaty. We�re not ratifying it. And it places no obligations on the UK.
�We don�t want to hold up the eurozone doing whatever is necessary to solve the crisis as long as it doesn�t damage our national interests. We will be watching this closely.�
British diplomats have negotiated changes in the wording of the treaty which they believe will ensure that the Court of Justice is not used to meddle with the single market, which Britain is signed up to.
In favour: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been an advocate of the EU treaty
But the Conservative leader in the European Parliament issued a withering press release after a meeting with the Prime Minister, saying he had no choice but to agree to the plans because Mr Clegg wanted the treaty to go ahead.
Martin Callanan said: �There is no doubt that the Government�s position has altered since the December summit.
�I blame a combination of appeasing Nick Clegg, who is desperate to sign anything the EU puts in front of him, and the reality that this pact is actually quite hard to prevent.�
Mr Cameron was monitored yesterday by a member of Mr Clegg�s staff � a symbol of the distrust between the coalition partners on Europe after Mr Cameron�s veto caught the Deputy Prime Minister by surprise.
Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: �We saw how popular David Cameron was in the opinion polls after he used his veto. We don�t want David Cameron to go down the road of waving the white flag.
�This will define whether he�s seen as a Thatcher or a Major, and I�m afraid the comparison will be with John Major.�
Tory MEP Dan Hannan said: �December�s �veto� turns out to be nothing of the kind; at best, it is a partial opt-out. Britain had asked for concessions in return for allowing the other member states to use EU institutions and structures for their fiscal compact.
�No such concessions were forthcoming, but we have given them permission anyway.�
Privately British officials made clear that they think the fiscal compact is unwise and will lock smaller European countries in a German-imposed financial straitjacket.
Mr Cameron received a small boost when the Czechs decided not to back the fiscal compact, leaving Britain in a minority of two rather than one.
Germany backed down yesterday over plans to impose a Brussels economic commissioner on Greece to force it to cut spending

Never, never, never trust the treacherous tories or any of the Lib/Lab/Conartists who are ALL united in their desire to surrender what little now remains of Great Britain to the control of a self-appointed elite based in Brussels.

thousands of Romanians have just entered the country, and they're not all selling the Big Issue on the streets, either!

I do hope there is massive support for the 100s of polls being held in marginal constituencies, asking for the public's opinion on the EU. The peoplespledge.org is the only vehicle we have for getting out of this corrupt, dictatorship called the EU.

If all else fails we can always have an uprising!!!!!!