Tories are crusing the television news studios boasting about how Cameron used his veto and bandying about words and phrases such as "bulldog spirit," "Churchill" and "national interest." Meanwhile Nick Robinson writes that he didn't believe for one moment that Cameron would actually veto the new Euro treaty. Well, cheer up Nick - he didn't. The word veto actually refers to an action that puts a stop to something. Cameron did no such thing - he simply refused to sign up to it. This was no spirited defence of Britain's national interest, no lone voice in the wilderness. It was a cynical ploy to avoid the one thing that Cameron could not, under any circumstances, face - a referendum on Europe in Britain. In other words it was an act of supreme cowardice and a means for preventing the British people expressing their democratic will. As the "News In Shorts" has pointed out before - Cameron is no Churchill, he's a Neville Chamberlain.
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