The pointy hats; here comes Uncle Jimmy's army

News today that David Cameron finds himself with little racing room for THAT referendum. Fair play to the lad, you can't retrospectively run a race that's already been run and lost. What will come next is to be a measure of the man, but let's face it the person who should be in the cross hairs over all this is one Gordon Brown. Promised a referendum. Bottled it. Shamefully crept into a darkened room to sign it and hoped no-one would notice. The traitor who betrayed democracy.

However the news today that the Tories cannot offer a referendum to ratify something already ratified has truly let the pointy-hat brigade out from their cages. They are all over the blog and comment sites, calling for the Queen to swing into action, for the army to stage a coup, for a thousand independent militias to take to the streets, to capture the TV Stations and to man the barricades.

Cameron is the death of Conservatism they're shouting, a coward, a charlatan, damn it somewhere one of them is probably saying he puts lime in his gin and tonic not lemon. The unutterable cad!

They're screaming about the death of England, about betrayal of the fallen and hanging traitors in Parliament Square. They're shouting for a UKIP Government.

I'm afraid at this point I was laughing so hard it began to hurt and I thought I felt my bladder send a 10 second warning of trouble in the offing, so, reluctantly I had to shut down t'interweb and lie in a darkened room for a bit.

A UKIP Government! That'd do her!

Oh, damn, there I go again!