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  Alexander -
  
  1/ the vote was about a referendum giving three choices, not just an in/out and as I have said voting against this silly referendum does not mean that you are pro-EU or against leaving and to suggest otherwise is just demonstrating an ignorance of politics.
  
  2/ Daft as this motion was and right they were, those who voted against it, it nevertheless has served a useful purpose. I have said for years that the Conservative Party is increasingly ant-EU and if the government payroll were taken into account along with the use of the whip the vast majority of Conservative MPs would support a fundamental renegotiation of our relationship with the EU. The pro-EU element in the Party is down to a small rump and it is a rump that will get ever smaller. It sets a marker down for the governments attitude to the EU and there will be more severe limits on how much they suck up to the LDs on the issue for this parliament.
  
  Consequently an overall Conservative majority at the next election will certainly be paving the way for our negotiated exit from the EU with the results of that renegotiation being put to a referendum, the sensible way round. Make no mistake a renegotiation will result in our exit and our membership of what we want, a free trade block only.
  
  Cameron was right when he said a new renegotiated relationship is years away, that was being refreshingly honest taking into account today's political reality.

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