It could be nothing more than stirring on part a newspaper which has long since ceased to be the in house journal of the Conservative Party and also has a deep scepticism of the Cameron Project, but even so it is deeply worrying to read this in the Daily Telegraph today:

“Ken Clarke, the shadow Business Secretary, is to hold secret talks in Brussels with Jose Manuel Barroso to assure the European Commission President the EU has nothing to fear from a Conservative government. The two-day visit to Brussels, which begins on Tuesday, by the most pro-EU member of David Cameron’s cabinet-in-waiting is seen by European officials as a signal that a new Conservative administration will work with the EU executive rather battling against it.”

We’ve already had the abandonment of the pledge of a referendum on the EU Constitution (you can’t agrue that retrospective referenda are pointless because we had a retrospective one to confirm joining the EEC), and Cameron’s comments that there would never be an In/Out referendum on his watch because we couldn’t be trusted to vote the right way (yes, he really said that). We’ve been fobbed off with a pointless promise of referenda on future treaties when we’ve just signed one with ratchet clauses meaning there don’t need to be any furture ones. Don’t worry, the Cameroons have told the Right, …he’s secretly on your side really but can’t say it openly for fear of startling the horses.

And now this. When will it end? When will the conspiracy of both parties to keep the British public in the dark finally be seen for what it is? A sellout and a betrayal. The Great Betrayal.

We’d be Better Off Out.