This disgusts me...UKIP prepare for government...I for one willl be voting for them

A Larter, London, UK

I am a Spanish researcher working in Germany and therefore I look at your problem with a different perspective. I am really curious about the British way of thinking with respect to the EU. If you do not like the idea of being integrated with other nations of Europe, why did you decide to participate in the EU? There are other countries, for instance Norway, that are more logic and do exactly what they think about Europe...

Julio, Rostock, Germany

Can it really be true that the UK has agreed to change the objectives of the EU from an internal market where competition is free and undistorted to a social market economy directed at full employment?
And in exchange for what? Is this a change of substance or just semantics?
It should in fact be no surprise because it a key plank in NS election campaign.

stephen Bull, fontes, france

Blair is in the habit of giving in on the word of someone else without anything concrete - look at how he caved in over the rebate after all his tough talk of not giving it away. He is a disgrace to himself, his party and, more seriously, his country.

Stuart Murray, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wasn't it only yesterday that I was reading that Blair would not make any concessions?

Diane, Milton Keynes , UK

Nothing to worry about, just a totalaterian dictatorship trying to take over the world...

B Calvey, Luton,

I'm afraid that Blair has totally lost the plot. Brown must stand up and show that Britain will not bow down to a group of tyrants. How we miss Margaret Thatcher. and time will prove how right I am.In his last days as PM Tony is giving in to everything. I ask can we change things around or is it too late now? How our true past great leaders must be turning in their graves.

John Brown, London, united kingdom

When we signed up we did so including Ever Closer Union. That was ages ago but now, finally, we find out what it really meant. No doubt our politicians have known for a long time but it's interesting that it has rarely been mentioned in public.

Perhaps we should be more careful about the treaties we sign. Others are driving a European socialist federation, something only a proportion of the UK population would vote for.

colin, shrewsbury, uk

So, would this be a fair view.

The EU demands Blair gives the UK's surrender, he says "No, but you can have control of our immigration policy".
The EU accepts

Next year.
The EU demands Blair gives the UK's surrender, he says, "No but you can take control of our taxation policy."

This isnt trading, its just giving in to the demands over a longer period.

Dominic, Manchester, UK

We voted in a referendum for a common market, not a distorted market. Now even this is changed. And we have handed over to Brussels vast tracts of wealth and power. The UK must must must now insist on a referendum - are there no decent MPs in the Commons across the parties to ensure that this happens? So much for Gordon Brown's new transparency and opening up of trade! A scandal, that just continues.

Jasmin, Cowley, UK