Posted on 06/14/2015 8:54:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
David Cameron is facing his first bloody nose in the House of Commons just five weeks after the general election with as many as 50 Conservative MPs set to try to force changes to the rules of the European Union referendum.
The Prime Minister is hoping that the potential Tory rebelswhich include former Tory Cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Owen Patersoncan be bought off with some credible assurances ahead of Tuesdays crunch votes on backbench amendments to the EU Referendum Bill.
However, Sir William Cash, who led the Tory rebels against Sir John Majors Government over the Maastricht Treaty in the 1990s, was confident that the rebels can give Mr. Cameron a bloody nose, with the support of Labour and the SNP, by overturning the Tories 12 Commons majority.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Attacking his own party over this issue is going to make an ex-Prime Minister sooner or later.
One was the promise to repeal the Human Rights Act (the socialist legislation under which criminals, terrorists, illegal immigrants and welfare parasites have full rights, while ordinary hard working native-born Britons have only the right to pay for them).
And it was revealed two weeks ago that he will not be asking the European Union for treaty changes, even though every power he claimed he would "repatriate" requires just such a treaty change.
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