Fifty Conservative MPs to challenge David Cameron over ‘rigged’ EU referendum rules

Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | 10:00PM BST 14 Jun 2015 | Christopher Hope and Ben Riley-Smith

[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 rebels—which include former Tory Cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Owen Paterson—can be bought off with some “credible assurances” ahead of Tuesday’s crunch votes on backbench amendments to the EU Referendum Bill.

However, Sir William Cash, who led the Tory rebels against Sir John Major’s 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. …

[GeronL]

Attacking his own party over this issue is going to make an ex-Prime Minister sooner or later.

[John Locke]

And the idea that Prime Minister Cameron can give anybody "credible assurances" is laughable. The man is a shameless liar and fraud. He has already broken two of the most important pledges that got his elected.

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.

[GeronL]

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[CPT Clay]

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