I see labour have combined with conservative rebels to vote against any budget increase for the EU, even if such increase is theoretically of inflation only increase.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20157063
There seems to be a lot of hypocrisy in the labour point of view. For a party that lost control of it's own spending and allowed vast increases when they were in power, and when they also seem to argue that coalition cuts are too harsh, it seems to me they are now pushing for something that they would not have done if in power themselves?
On the other hand the conservatives in particular seem to be almost giving in to EU if they say the best deal they could hope to achieve was inflation neutral. Why is it acceptable to allow the bloated EU to spend more freely than national government can?
It strikes me as odd that the vote against the government was in fact only lost by such a shallow margin. There should have been a much larger conservative rebellion.
It would appear to me that Cameron, whilst trying to hide behind the veil of an inflation neutral budget being the best result he could achieve, is in fact pandering to, rather than standing up to the largely unaccountable Europe. But then maybe Cameron has found he has as little say over what the "bigger government" of the EU does to him, as us little people who vote in the UK actually have of what government does to us.