AFP / Yahoo News: Britain prepared to walk away from EU: foreign minister (Actually, Angela, thanks to possibly deranged officials like yourself, locking in policies offering open borders to high birthrate alien cultures, European peoples have already passed the "point of no return," and will have to fight their way back, nonviolently if at all possible.)

Britain prepared to walk away from EU: foreign minister



London (AFP) - Britain will walk away from negotiations with European Union partners if its pleas for immigration reform are ignored, raising the real possibility of leaving the bloc altogether, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said Friday.

Hammond told the Daily Telegraph that the British public could vote to end the country's membership unless there was "substantial, meaningful reform" from Brussels.

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised an in-out referendum for 2017 if his Conservative Party wins next year's general election, but has failed to win support for border reforms from fellow European leaders.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week warned her British counterpart that he was approaching a "point of no return" with the EU over his immigration proposals, according to a German news report. ...

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