Walker's World: UK survives EU budget row  By MARTIN WALKER, UPI
Editor Emeritus   |   Nov. 26, 2012 at 12:04 AM  VIENNA, Nov. 26
(UPI) -- It came as no surprise that the 27 heads of government
of the European Union failed to agree on the bloc's next
trillion-euro budget. But it was a surprise that Britain wasn't
isolated and found key allies in Germany, Holland and Sweden to
support its call for real cuts in planned future spending.  The
European media had been filled for weeks with speculation about
a Brexit, a British withdrawal from the European Union, partly
pushed from Europe and partly pulled by the British.  Under this
scenario, the push would come from the eurozone members who want
more centralized control over the budget of nation states and
over the financial system as a whole. Seeing this as an assault
on the City of London, Europe's dominant financial center, the
euroskeptic British would then pull Britain further and further
from its EU partners until the link finally snapped.  It could
still ha