27 October

I have emailed my MP Greg Hands and asked him to vote in favour of the motion to be proposed on 27 October that there be a referendum on the EU. As Greg Hands is now in the whips' office I assume he will not be able to do so, even if he wants to, unless Cameron allows a free vote which for some reason Cameron says he is not going to permit. Why have the Tories become so reluctant to press EU issues? Is it because of the coalition agreement or is it because of some fear of how the other EU countries will react? Frankly why should we care how the other EU countries react considering what they owe this country for all the help we have given them over the centuries. If I were a conspiracy theorist I might think that the pusillanimous way we deal with the EU countries is because they have something over us but I know it's not that. It is our civil servants who have been totally mesmerised by the EU and who, like all elitists, are generally left inclined, think their opinions are superior to those of the rest of us and that thus for our own good we must learn to love the EU. Well it is clear that we don't and we won't so ya boo sucks. How our civil servants could think that someone like the awful Delors or the commie Barroso or the idiotic van Rompuy or the arrogant Guy Verhofstadt are worthy of anything other than derision is impossible to understand. What a mess we have landed ourselves in. What madness it was to join the Common market. We must now most urgently extract ourselves so please ask your MP to vote in favour of the motion on 27 October for a referendum on the EU.