ZENGA ZENGA

IN A DEMOCRACY IT IS EXTREMELY rare for any of our leaders to lose control and come up with threatening rants when they feel their positions are undermined, and although one might have expected this of former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who was liable to fly off the handle at a moment’s notice, very few people must have expected such heavy-handed, ham-fisted tactics by mild-mannered model pupil David “Dave” Cameron.

ALAS! THE PRESSURES OF POWER have led Cameron to confront his back-benchers over a proposed revolt on Monday if he does not comply with his election promise to allow Parliament to have a chance to introduce legislation for a referendum on Britain’s position in Europe.

HOLDING CAMERON’S FEET TO THE FIRE are now 50 Conservative MP, involving many Parliamentary Private Secretaries who would rather resign than face up to their electors during surgery, or – more threateningly – lose their seats to one of the members of Nigel Farage’s marauding band of UKIP candidates snapping at their heels.

CAMERON HAS THREATENED to sack the rebels and has also promised that the whips will be out on Monday. In my opinion he should perhaps think about the fate of another famous former leader who only months ago told his own rebels that he would hunt them down from room to room, house to house, alley to alley.