Blame UKIP

I have just done something I have never done before.  I have emailed my MP. At the last General Election he was my opponent in Eastleigh.  He beat me by 568 votes. Despite my long track record of Euro-scepticism dating back to my opposition of Maastricht at University, with my contemporary Dan Hannan, UKIP decided to field a candidate.  The UKIP candidate polled 1,669. I know from talking to many of them that they would otherwise have been Conservative voters.  They almost certainly secured the election of Chris Huhne to Parliament.  And tonight they may well see the consequences of their actions. At that election both Chris Huhne and myself, as well as the Labour candidate (all pictured), promised the people of Eastleigh that we would support a referendum of the Lisbon Treaty.  Tonight only one of us has the chance to honour that pledge we made in good faith.  I have reminded Chris of that promise and said that if I were Eastleigh's MP I would honour it tonight.  Chris Huhne should do the same.  If he fails to do so and Parliament fails to give the promised referendum UKIP will be partly to blame.