Over the weekend I blogged about David Cameron's use of the Veto at the Euro summit last week, and how I thought that he had done exactly the right thing for both the government and the country, I also spoke about how the chattering classes, especially auntie BBC, had started to have palpitations at the thought that we might take a couple of steps backwards from Europe, there were claims that this would be a "disaster darling", that we would be sidelined, that no-one in Europe would love us anymore (not that they did in the first place), and how this was going to be terribly bad for all of us.
In my view that lot is utter nonsense, Europe needs our billions in subsidy and our buying power (we buy a lot more from Europe that they do from us) an awful lot more than we need them, and Cameron needs to stick to his guns and make sure we get a deal on our terms.
It now seems that the great British public also loves Cameron's bulldog spirit, the four opinion polls that have been carried out since last Thursday's summit show that the Conservatives have either moved level with Labour or in two cases show a 2% lead for the Tories.
If these polls were translated into a general election it would mean that Labour would have lost 600,000 voters in less than a week, while the Conservatives have gained just over two million, and Europe has become the third most important issue in the minds of the public.
In addition the old three headed Lib Dem snake has reared its heads all over again, on Friday last week the Cleggmeister announced he had agreed the stance that Cameron was to take, and that he was happy with the outcome, by Sunday after getting stick from his Europhile colleagues he was deeply disappointed in the outcome and it would be "bad for Britain", then last night he was giving his MP's a three line whip to get them to vote with the government on a motion that congratulated the PM on his mission, and confirmed the UK's position on the matter! His MP's promptly ignored him and abstained from the vote!!!
Is it any wonder the Lib Dems are in disarray when they take three different positions on one subject in four days?
PMQ's later on should be interesting to say the least!
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