Badger52
10-31-2012, 16:00
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9647205/Cameron-suffers-stinging-defeat-over-Europe.html
The Government was defeated by 307 votes to 294, a majority of 13. Commons sources estimated that 51 Tories voted against the Government, with two more acting as tellers.
The vote was Mr Cameron’s second major Commons defeat over Europe and led to warnings that division in the Conservative Party over Europe could hamstring him as it did Sir John Major during the 1990s.
Companion article looking at macro of the givers & the takers here. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9643193/EU-budget-who-pays-what-and-how-it-is-spent.html)
As a buddy retired from another agency would say to me:
"There's a clue in here, if only we are open to its appearance."
The Brits must sleep long & hard; hoist one to their possible awakening.
The Government was defeated by 307 votes to 294, a majority of 13. Commons sources estimated that 51 Tories voted against the Government, with two more acting as tellers.
The vote was Mr Cameron’s second major Commons defeat over Europe and led to warnings that division in the Conservative Party over Europe could hamstring him as it did Sir John Major during the 1990s.
Companion article looking at macro of the givers & the takers here. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9643193/EU-budget-who-pays-what-and-how-it-is-spent.html)
As a buddy retired from another agency would say to me:
"There's a clue in here, if only we are open to its appearance."
The Brits must sleep long & hard; hoist one to their possible awakening.