AGAINST all expectations the Conservative Party has emerged from the last election with a slender overall majority.

Cameron soon bowed to the Eurosceptics in his own party and gave them a Europe ‘in or out’ referendum, which I assume was against his better judgment.

If Labour or a Labour/Lib Dem coalition had won the last election we would have had no referendum at all, quite right too, in my opinion.

We pay 650 Westminster MPs to run the country on our behalf and if we don’t like what they do we can vote them out every five years.

Cameron could have given his party a free vote on the subject and that would’ve been the end of the matter.

As we edge ever closer to EU Referendum Day it seems to be a close call, if we can believe what we hear, if true whichever way it goes it could be messy if it’s ‘out’, not least Scotland (Pro Europe) and the EU Border (as it would become) in Northern Ireland to name but two.

And if it’s “In” we are still lumbered with a largely non-democratic talking shop, which we can hope at least to reform from the inside should we vote to remain in.

Having spent three years in the BAOR (British Army of the Rhine)West Germany in the late 1950s during the so called Cold War, it was well known that should the Soviets, including East Germany, had decided to attack the West, we (BAOR) could at best only had held them off for a few days.

So we should never forget what history has taught us!

Whatever the result our Prime Minister’s days in office would seem to be numbered, all largely of his own making. – He said he wouldn’t serve another term and he did call for the referendum.

Both of which was a mistake in my view.

Finally, I posted my ballot paper today, (Tuesday, June 7).

No doubt you can guess which way I voted?

Bob Evered

Dursley