Cameron plans Friday night reception for select Tory MPs

TrevorsDen

Shocking - ! Cameron actually speaking to his MPs? When will this cad start behaving like the hysterics pretend?

Tom Pride

I get this feeling that it’s going to be Cast Iron Cameron – brittle and prone to shatter at the first blow – engaged in a little peremptory CYA. Compare and contrast with The Iron Lady – ". . . the substance under test consisted of ferrous matter of the highest quality, and that it is of exceptional tensile strength, is highly resistant to wear and tear and to stress, and may be used to advantage for all national purposes".

Ghengis

Invites to the trough eh?

Andy Carpark

Ferrero Rocher will no doubt be served - by our man on the ground, J Forsyth. Don't let them take them from the bottom, James, otherwise the cones will collapse, sending you scrabbling around on the floor.

The memsahib

Maybe Cameron should "reach out" to MPs by doing the will of the electorate and heeding the mood of their constituents, which is overwhelmingly anti-EUSSR.

Forget the friggin' wine, Hon. David Blancmange-Hen's Arse, and listen to the voters. They don't like you.

London Calling

Cameron’s only taking one shirt then?…Other EU members are taking a wardrobe full…unless Cameron’s wearing a fur coat due to the expecting chill…even Bulldogs feel the cold you know…

A return for an early Supper sounds Great…plenty to chew over…:)

Ghengis

Tom Pride: tempered perhaps?

Rhoda Klapp

With Forsyth in the byline and a story which is supposed to make Cameron look good, might one suspect a 'briefing'? What other MPs, and how many have had any one-on-one time with DC before, or will this time? Perhaps he is going to explain the Korski plan.

boudicca

Not that surprising - it will only take Cameron a couple of minutes to get down on his knees before Merkozy and Barosso and swear that he will do whatever they instruct.

Then he's free to go.

Tariq

Alan Clark's diaries are quite instructive on the dangers even a supposedly unassailable leader can encounter by not cultivating the parliamentary party.

In2minds

Sounds like a pleasant evening to me. They all meet up at Heston Aerodrome to watch the PM's Lockheed come into land. Then the PM stands on the steps of the aeroplane and waves a bit of paper. Finally the cavalcade wends its way to Chequers for a decent meal.

Russell

The bbc/sky and every newspaper shouting the euro must be saved or it is the end of the world.

Perhaps Cameron should be concentrating on our currency, the £pound.

Stuff the euro, they are our competitors as are the americans.

We are not borrowing £billions to pump into the $dollar or any other currency, and even though our economy has been stuffed, I don't see Germany or France or any europeans pumping cash to the UK.

Cameron needs to look at the 60% of our economy that isn't the EU.

If Cameron bottles this opportunity to let us have an EU referendum he and the tories are toast come the next elections, Council, EU and General.

Frank P

Before or after he has confessed to the hoi polloi what is the latest phase in the scam.
Or will they work out the spiel when the Horses' Necks arrive.

TomTom

According to Der Spiegel EU Lawyers state it is illegal to create a separate agreement for 17 EuroZone states. Treaty changes can only be done by 27 States; and that anything agreed bilaterally cannot be enforced through EU institutions.

That makes the whole exercise a waste of time. They must either introduce another Treaty at the IGC or use brute force to impose their will on other EU states.

These politicians are so used to fudge they cannot see when they are stuck in it

TGF UKIP

One certainly might, Rhoda.

Verity

Frank P - Not you too!!!! Hoi polloi means "the people". Hoi is not an adjective! This usage drives me crazy!

London Calling

…Followed by desert and further discussions on a new EU regulation warning that wind turbines blow up if they spin to fast…I would recall the lot of them, obviously they were not tested properly by the EU, whilst much money and attention was recently made on studying water bottle labelling, to remove the claim that water consumption helps reduce dehydration …

Smile … otherwise you go mad….:)

London Calling

Correction….Spin toooooooooo fast…:)

Heartless P.

Lines written in honour of Mine Host at a Reception Celebrating a Great Victory over the EUSSR

He bravely faced the other way
And prayed the foe would go away
But brightened when he heard the cheer - More wine please waiter
And cool beer!

Thus heartened
And with eyes so bright - as though he'd Won a fearsome fight
He turned and faced his eager guests
And proudly said -
I’m just the best!

Peter From Maidstone

I think that the usage 'the hoi polloi' is well attested and acceptable. We are not, after all, speaking Greek, but using a Greek phrase in English.

Mudplugger

London Calling....

No correction of 'desert' then ? Maybe it's the Sahara Dessert - hot and sandy without a hint of ice-cream ?

Cynic

"Tellingly, the invitations to this event went out just last week." Probably because Dave knew that he would sign on the dotted line and it would all be over quickly. Is this the CMD equivalent of beer and sandwiches in number 10 - a rather more upmarket pheasant and wine at Chequers?

Verity

P from M -- It doesn´t matter. People think that the word "hoi" is derogatory and it just means "the". But if you think it's OK, chacun a son gout.

FREE INDIGENE EMMA WEST

London Calling

@Mudplugger

Thanks for pointing that out…however no correction is required…minus the ice cream though and more like a surf board in the desert, would describe events perfectly …:)

Herbert Thornton

The week when the wind turbines flew to pieces because they were out of control & rotating too fast, eh?

Was this really caused by the wind, or is that just the official excuse?

Was the destruction caused by the Iranian Islamuxnet virus?

Clanger62

@ Tom Pride & Ghengis;

PIIGS iron probably. It was the industrial precursor of cast iron before the Bessemer Process and was brittle and likely to shatter when put under stress. That said, waking up to the news this morning has been quite an eye opener.

Widmerpool

I wonder what the people with the real money, the Chinese, will make of this. They will fear the old Europe is re-emerging with all its protectionists elements to the fore. HK market fell over 2.5%
IMHO Sark Merk don't like the Anglo Saxon market model and are wedded to an outdated social welfare/labour law model which the Chinese cited as a reason for their not propping the Euro!

Frank P

Verity

Yeh, gal, I know, I know! Bit like 'la cosa nostra' instead of 'cosa nostra' - a daft corruption, but one slips into common usage and you're not usually pedantic. You're up early today? Are you back in Blighty and failing to notify the crew? Tut, tut!

Walter Ellis

Britain has made it's bed – a single bed with an old and creaking mattress. Now it must lie on it.

To mix metaphors, I remember Tony Blair warning recalcitrants in Northern Ireland that the train of progress was leaving, with or without them. He might have been talking about Britain and Europe.

This is a sad day, not a day to crow about. I listened to Romano Prodi on the BBC. Britain had voted for freedom, he said. As a result, it had surrendered power. I think he's right.

Now let's get on with the referendum and finish this.

Rhoda Klapp

Yes Walter. Now tell us what is so damn good about the EU, as it now is. A question you have omitted to answer.

Ben G

Another cunningly accurate prediction, Baldrick...

Needle

Since the inception of the Common Market the UK has been marginalised. CAP was for France and the EDF was for Germany. We are one of the major contributors to the Euro fund and have always been net losers. Now is the time to cut and run. No more contributions to the EU and expand our trade with the Commonwealth, China, Brazil, India and other expanding economies......Do we need Europe? The answer is NO!