The House of Lords is voting today on whether or not a referendum should be held over the lisbon treaty.

The tories are calling for a referendum (no surprise) - they would love nothing more than to rip the UK out of europe.

What is interesting is the Liberal's position. Clegg tells his MP's to abstain when the issue was in the commons, but then tells his peers to vote against a referendum in the lords.

Very confused.  

I wrote this essay from a Liberal perspective and would not usually post it on Labourhome, however, I feel it's content just as important to social democrats as it is Liberals. there is a need for us to defend political correctness and I do not feel that need is being met in either quantity or quality. Discrimination and prejudice hurts everyone and political correctness is there to combat this. This needs to be explained, I hope I did an OK job.

A discussion about liberal conservatism