The EU referendum vote

Thursday 27th October will be an interesting day.  The House of Commons will debate a motion on  a referendum with three options: in, out or re-negotiate.  The result of the vote is not binding on the government.  Nevertheless, it is reported that Cameron will issue a three-line whip ordering MPs to trudge into the 'no' division lobby to defeat the call for a referendum.  Once again, Europe has returned to haunt the Tories.

See: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100111943/david-cameron-doesn%e2%80%99t-have-long-to-tell-us-where-he-stands-on-europe/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100111867/the-house-of-commons-will-finally-divide-on-whether-to-give-us-an-inout-referendum-whats-the-betting-that-the-bbc-report-it-wholly-as-a-tory-splits-story/

I foresee UKIP gaining new members after 27th October as disaffected Tories finally lose patience.  In this context, an interesting article from Conservative Home:

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/majority_conservatism/2011/10/a-summary-of-the-differences-between-the-conservative-party-we-have-and-the-conservative-party-we-ne.html