What on earth are the Tories doing? Have they taken leave of their senses?
Firstly, they're in a coalition government. Of course David Cameron can't do everything he wants. Get over it. And as things stand it's perfectly conceivable that with a slowly improving economy, a Labour party with no convincing economic policy and a Lib Dem vote that will surely collapse in a heap, they could win outright in 2015. Would they prefer Cameron to throw the dice in the air and call a snap election now?
The Tory backwoodsmen rather remind me of Bruce the Shark in Finding Nemo. "Fish are friends, not food", Bruce mutters to himself repeatedly. And it works until he smells blood. Thus the Tories over Europe. Scenting the possibility of an In-Out referendum, the red mist has descended and common sense thrown to the wind. Not for nothing are they known as The Stupid Party.
