But Mr Cameron’s own reckless suggestion that, unless the EU changes its treaty rules to limit immigration to the UK, it will push us ever-nearer to the exit, highlights just how utterly confused and empty his own policy towards Europe has become. Like Sir John Major, Mr Cameron tells us how determined he is that Britain shall remain a member. But his hope that, if re-elected next year, he can somehow negotiate a new relationship with the EU which he can put to an “In-Out” referendum no later than 2017, is now more pie-in-the-sky than ever. Not only is he told by almost all his continental “colleagues”, including Mr Juncker, that such a deal – inevitably requiring a new treaty – is simply not on, but he also shows not the slightest sign of having read the Lisbon Treaty, which lays down such cumbersome procedures for any new treaty that they could not possibly be concluded before his 2017 deadline.