There is no getting away
from the fact that Cameron made a bad mistake not allowing a free vote on last
night's referendum motion. Will the public like him any the less as a result?
Strangely in my view they will not. It is not that he is an unlikeable fellow
but he is not exactly someone that one can feel strongly about one way or the
other. Yes, he commands some respect and maybe that's enough to see him through
the difficulties his action has brought. I do not buy the theory that it was
worth him imposing the 3 line whip as otherwise he would have been plagued by
questions about the date of the referendum and its content. The motion for a
referendum would have had to have been won for questions about the referendum
date and its content to have arisen and in my estimation the motion was never
going to be won anyway. As it is Cameron is already being asked what the
referendum would cover and he will have to do better than the answers he has
given today if he wants to park the issue. Cameron is also lucky that Labour
has a leader who will never be considered as having what it takes to be a Prime
Minister and so any thoughts he may have of trying to make capital out of the
Tory differences on the referendum motion will not give him much traction.
Better though for those who feel cheated by the line taken by the Tory
hierarchy to sign a new petition which you can access on Guido's blog site here.
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