I TRUST David Cameron isn’t getting too settled in at No 10 because, following the debacle of the ‘debate’ on an EU referendum, his days are surely numbered.

As long as all parties have the ‘whipping’ system in place to force members to vote along party lines, then any debate the Government decides isn’t for them will be rigged.

Mr Cameron’s own party is revolting, as was demonstrated in the debate on whether Britain should hold a referendum on remaining in the EU.

Why this desperation to remain in the EU, which also formed a key part of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s years? Blair and Brown both promised a referendum on this issue and reneged on their promises.

Could this desperation to stay in the EU be because none of our political parties have the experience or will to go it alone?

The EU bears no resemblance to the Common Market we joined in 1973 and the time is now right for us to pull out.

I repeat my advice to Mr Cameron. Don’t get too settled in at No 10 because you are only there for a short time.

Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge.

• PRIME Minister David Cameron is so wrong to try and force 70 Tory MPs not to vote on an issue which their constituents, along with about 70 per cent of the electorate, clearly want: a vote on UK membership in or out of the EU. Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband are equally guilty using the whip mechanism to negate democracy.

MPs are supposed to represent the views of the folk who voted them in.

Cameron is especially weak because he does not have anyone in his party of the stature of Willie Whitelaw or Norman Tebbitt.

These two formidable men, in the times of PM Thatcher, could say to rank and file Tory backbenchers, “I know the PM is wrong on this issue, but you will vote and support her,” and they did. PM John Major had the same problem.

David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.