And it wouldn’t be, if MPs were determined that they would serve as the elected representatives of their constituents in our sovereign Parliament, rather than behave as slaves to their parties – which necessarily means whenever any one party has a majority, that majority will behave as slaves to the Prime Minister, giving him the power to control the House of Commons in all matters, rather than the other way round as it should be.

However, when an overwhelming majority of MPs obey the instructions from their parties that they should vote against an amendment to affirm and protect the legal supremacy of their own Parliament, and another considerable section abstain from voting because that’s what their party asked them to do, and less than ten per cent of the MPs are willing to defy their parties and vote for it, then obviously there’s something very wrong with the kind of people we’ve been putting in the Commons.

I am not holding my breath waiting for any Government to reduce their own power, but I’m hoping for it.

Remember the self-styled “Liberal Democrats”, seventy-odd of them, led by the euromaniac Clegg.

As most of them willingly broke their manifesto promise to their constituents over the Lisbon Treaty, it’s absurd to suppose that they’d allow the Labour government to fall, probably letting in the Tories and thereby opening the door to a UK referendum, before the Irish have voted again in October.

After which either the treaty will be dead, or Cameron’s referendum pledge will automatically expire because the treaty has come into force.

I’m afraid that we’re stuck with this government until spring 2010, and depending on how the Irish vote we may also be stuck with the Lisbon Treaty.

Unless Cameron pledged that if necessary he would hold a retrospective referendum, in which case our general election would immediately be decoupled from the second referendum in Ireland.

How many Labour MPs would actually line up in public to go through the lobby to back Gordon Brown. If they did then they would be seen to be cowards and if they didn’t they would be heores. OK they would be unemployed and unemployable heroes.

But even if the Vote was lost the Conservatives would be winners because Labour MPs would be seen to be a bunch of (sorry to use a Star Trek metaphore) Klingons!

Reply: Labour would vote solidly for the government if we tabled a Motion of No Confidence. It would temporarily unite them against their common enemy. If we thought there was the slightest chance of winning such a vote to bring on an election we would table one.

And I don’t just mean that we’ve voted in a majority of Labour MPs, because during the period 1947 – 97 there were Labour majorities for nearly a third of the time, and clearly they didn’t allow the previous Labour governments to treat Parliament with such utter contempt.

One factor may have been a large intake of poor quality new members in 1997, so now I wonder what will ensue if the Tories win the next general election on the same scale as Labour won the 1997 election.

Do you want a promise from the man who only made two promises and has failed to keep either?

Exactly how much do you think a Cameron promise is worth?