Letter: David Cameron might regret this

Your leader on January 4 envisages David Cameron rueing his phrase 'We're all in it together'.

He might care to include some of these, too:

A speech setting out Conservative policy on the EU, '. . . our guiding principles will be these: we believe Britain's interests are best served by membership of a European Union that is an association of its member states, we will never allow Britain to slide into a federal Europe and that means we will watch closely how the Lisbon Treaty works out in practice'.

November 2009: 'Never again' will power be handed over to Brussels without the British people's say so, the Tory leader pledged.

This is what Cameron did as soon as he got into office, signed up to something that could have been refused.

(Denmark refused): "Theresa May, the Home Secretary, will today announce she plans to sign up to the so-called European Investigation Order (EIO)."

George Osborne signed up to this: "The three European Supervision Authorities (ESA) will sit above individual national regulators and will, in time, gain sweeping powers that will allow them to intervene in the running of national financial institutions and markets."

Mr Cameron was powerless regarding the EU budget and Britain's budget increase: 'David Cameron admits defeat on EU budget freeze'.

'Eurosceptic' William Hague: Changes to the fundamental rules of the European Union will not lead to a British referendum, William Hague has insisted.

David Cameron has signalled he is prepared to give his consent to a German plan to alter the EU's basic rules to support the euro.

And when it comes to future economic control across the EU, paragraph 34 of the European Council's own report creates 'a new legal framework . . . applying to all EU Member States'.

Cameron had also said before he was elected that if the Treaty was ratified he 'wouldn't let it rest'.

He told Andrew Marr that: '"What I've said is if it goes through and it's ratified by everybody and implemented we won't let matters rest there."

And, of course, it was but he has.

The message in all this is is clear.

AJ Astley, Ellesmere