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Voters are going to get really sick of the Conservatives going on about this, why on earth can't David Cameron go and do negotiations for better terms now in these 2 years before the election.
He cannot get a referendum bill passed obviously but he can start the negotiations,I doubt many MPs would not support that move now.

He then could hope for an overall majority in 2015,(it would need to be a big one though as the pro EU MPs in his party would be unlikely to allow a referendum to be held if the vote looked like being won by the come out voters),in order to get a referendum passed in the commons to be held within a year after the 2015 election.

As it is, he is saying this badly needs to be done but he is just wanting to leave it,firstly for a whole 2 years until the next election,then spend a further 2 years on negotiations for better terms from the EU to finally then hold a referendum sometime before the end of 2017.

None of it sounds credible or that he can be trusted with that,especially since something so important can be left by him for a further 2 years before he even starts to begin to do anything about it.

He isn't just asking for a signed blank cheque as to this issue from the voters,he is in essence asking for a whole book of them. Terrible leadership and a real mess too.
He must really think the voters are idiots,that they cannot see his manipulation of this issue.

I know a lot has happened with the EU in the time that has passed but even as late as around the start of 1990, had Labour been advocating this and had MPs voting as Conservative ones did tonight, it would have been branded as loony left politics by the Conservative party.