Cammers showing a split

Those clever chaps at Revolts.co.uk have pointed out something interesting from last night's EuroDisco. Nick Clegg wasn't the only young man with some stroppy kids to deal with:

As everyone examined the damage done to Nick Clegg's leadership by the largest Lib Dem rebellion in six years, the Commons also divided on New Clause 9 in the name of William Cash. It stated that nothing in the new Treaty of Lisbon should be construed by any court in the United Kingdom as affecting the supremacy of the United Kingdom Parliament.

The Conservative frontbench line was to abstain. But 40 Conservative MPs, including 12 members of the 2005 intake, voted for Cash's clause. Europhile Ken Clarke voted with the Government in the no lobby.

As revolts points out, not strictly a rebellion but a split. Forty Tory MPs prepared to vote for a frankly barking piece of anti-EU weirdness. Doesn't bode well, does it? And, meanwhile, as Mike Smithson points out, really, no-one gives a toss.