Europeans are divided on UK's alliance MANY people in Britain believe their country can do perfectly well outside the EU. Members of the UK Independence Party even think Britain would do better, as do a considerable number of Conservative "euro-sceptics." They dream of Britain as a kind of Singapore of the West, a commercial powerhouse ruled from the City of London. That is why Prime Minister David Cameron felt obliged to offer the British people a referendum on a simple question: in or out. Cameron does not personally want Britain to leave the EU, but he knows that some form of democratic consent is needed for future British governments to settle the matter.