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No2EU campaigners ridicule PM over EU 'games'

NO2EU campaigners ridiculed grandstanding Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday for playing games in Brussels instead of opposing Britain’s EU membership.

The zig-zagging Mr Cameron phoned Jean-Claude Juncker to congratulate him on running a successful campaign for presidency of the EU Commission.

Yet Mr Cameron had spent the whole of last week proclaiming that Mr Juncker’s appointment would be “a sad moment for Europe” — and that he would fight against it “to the end.”

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