Er Storbritannien på vej ud af EU?

Efter David Camerons store EU nederlag i parlamentet onsdag, kan en tilbagetrækning fra EU ikke længere afvises som utænkelig, siger MP Tory Douglas Carswell.

Storbritannien står over for en krise, der kan ende med verdens 6. største økonomi forlader EU, advarer Vicepremierminister Nick Clegg.

MailOnline skriver:

Tory MPs today called for Britain to leave the EU, saying the diea of withdrawal is now 'mainstream thinking'.

A Commons debate was used to step up pressure on David Cameron to take a tougher line with Brussels.

Eurosceptic backbenchers demanded the government scraps the 1972's European Communities Act which in theory could pave the way for severing ties with the continent.

Tory MP Douglas Carswell pushed the idea, claiming it is time to think seriously about the ‘mechanism of withdrawal’ from the union.

Calling for serious discussions about how the UK could exit the EU, he said: 'Withdrawing from the European Union can no longer be dismissed as unthinkable, it's no longer a marginal view confined to mavericks. It is a legitimate point that is starting to go mainstream.

Læs Leaving EU is no longer a 'maverick' idea, says Tory MP who tried to get the Commons to back withdrawing from Brussels hos MailOnline.

Reuters skriver:

A day after Prime Minister David Cameron was defeated in parliament for not demanding a cut to the EU budget, Clegg said on Thursday that the behavior of the rebel lawmakers could leave Britain isolated in the EU or outside it altogether.

"You will never achieve (anything) by stamping your foot and saying, 'Well we want to be part of this club, we want to unilaterally rewrite the rules of the games, and we want to pick and choose unilaterally what we sign up to,'" said Clegg, the leader of the pro-European Liberal Democrats, the junior party in Cameron's coalition government.

"My worry is that it is a much shorter leap from that to an outright crisis which would leave the United Kingdom fully marginalized or even out of the European Union than people seem to imagine," Clegg said.

In a sign of the infighting over Europe at the top of the government, Clegg spoke an hour after finance minister George Osborne warned that Britain would veto any deal on the budget that would be bad for the UK taxpayer.

Læs Deputy PM Clegg warns UK risks sliding to EU exit hos Reuters.