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  Im afraid Cameron did do a kneejerk reaction the last time around. It did appease his revolting backbenchers in the short term but there is no long term appeasement possible with some of these guys because they want total withdrawal from the EU. This time at the EU summit Mr Cameron is taking a softer line and is more back in the fray, back in the mainstream...which led Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight last night to ask why he did the so called 'veto' in the first place, if he is now back swimming mainstream.
  
  The reason for the veto was simple...to appease his own party. The knives were out for him, the daggers were drawn.
  
  Sure it gave Cameron a boost in the polls as generally a punch in the nose to those foreigners always goes down well with the readers of the Daily Express and the Daily Mail. "Eureka" they cry for the bulldog!
  
  I myself prefer to see him back in a central role in the EU...its not for the UK to be hovering on the fringes of anything. You cannot seriously operate as a big player in the world any more as a tiny solitary nation. Just to make this point...take the EU oil embargo against Iran...its bound to have an impact...the UK having an embargo would be laughable as it would have no impact.
  
  If you punch with the bigger players as a united block you score well. All the serious trading blocks are big now.

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