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OK, terrible song. But isn't it ironic that on the very day that a brutal dictator was finally tracked down and executed in cold blood for his crimes, the three major UK political parties confirmed that each will be using a three-line whip to instruct their MPs to vote against an in/out referendum on the European Union? Any MPs with additional responsibilities (such as PPSs) will be sacked.

They say charity begins at home. Is democracy something that we require only of foreigners? We'll send our soldiers overseas to die in their hundreds in defence of 'democracy', while undermining representative democracy at home. Cameron, Miliband and Clegg should ask themselves some very serious questions tonight.

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