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Ritchie: Cameron’s Europe Walk-Out Disastrous for EU Relations

SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has spoken out against David Cameron exercising the UK’s veto on a proposed deal to solve the Eurozone crisis.

Fri 9th December

She said: “In walking away from the deal on the table at Brussels, David Cameron may be satisfying the Eurosceptic mob in his own party, but he is not necessarily getting the best deal for the UK, much less for the North of Ireland.

“We in the SDLP are proud supporters of the EU, though we do recognise that the citizens of the North must be protected, financially and otherwise, from the upset in the Eurozone.

“However, this move by the Prime Minister can only serve to harm our relationship with the EU and create a two-speed, two-tier Europe with those on the inside of the stabilisation deal sorting out the mess, and those on the outside, looking on.

“With the Prime Minister once more kowtowing to the interests of the financial services industry which precipitated the current crisis, rather than listening to the needs of his people, we must ask whether the citizens of the North of Ireland can trust him to protect their interests at this precarious time.”

Margaret Ritchie

Margaret Ritchie MP, Westminster

Email m.ritchie@sdlp.ie
Tel 028 4461 2882

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