There have been some superb posts across the blogosphere on Cameron’s utterly gobsmacking failure to protect Britain in the Euro Summit recently.

Regular readers will appreciate I’m not in favour of Cameron’s use of our veto. My tweets over the weekend included;

Cameron has rendered Britain Snow Patrol at a heavy metal concert

and

Cameron puts bankers *cough* I mean, Britain first

One has to review his eclectic performance in the Commons last night as polarising the debate further. If the images are anything to go by, the debate was as titillating for the Eurosceptics as it was for the pro-Europeans.

The newspapers chose to focus on Clegg’s absence, but his presence was felt in his son David Cameron’s speech.

The separation, the dramatic opposition in the UK, is fascinating. What’s even more fascinating is that it is not just political theorists differentiating, but genuine consideration of negotiation in a way that the coalition was never considered.

Most people, whether pro-or anti-banks or pro or anti the EU, recognise the petulance ineffectively throwing a tantrum for not getting your own way.

Grown-ups, mainly reflected in the intelligent papers, observe the value of being a participant in Europe over being akin to an outsider. Especially when the financial industry is pretty much the only threat the economy is hanging on by.