Unfortunately, Cameron’s track record in European politics does not inspire confidence in his ability to manage a different outcome. When, in 2009, he ordered the Conservative MEPs to withdraw from the European People’s Party, the Europe-wide grouping of center-right political forces, he merely deprived the Tories – now consigned to sit with the sectarians and obscurantists – of any influence in the European Parliament.
不幸的是，卡梅伦的欧洲政治表现记录实在无法激起人们对他获得不同结果的信心。2009年，他下令保守党MEP退出欧洲人民党（European People’s Party，泛欧洲的中右翼政治势力集团），此举剥夺了保守党在欧洲议会的一切影响力，而保守党现在已与派系主义者和反启蒙主义者处在同一阵营中。他削弱了英国在欧盟的地位，最终加重了党内对欧元的疑虑