Dozens of Conservative MPs defied David Cameron over Syria: "Cavalier and Reckless"

Kaiser Barry

The world is looking at another obscure conflict where we only have foes.  m/r
Guns of August:

Julian Lewis, the MP for New Forest East said Britain should not "lob weapons" into the Syrian "powder keg".
He said: "Next year we are going to be commemorating the centenary of events in 1914.
"Those events have a worrying parallel. You have a series of actions and reactions which drew in, in an escalating action, one country after another.
"Nobody thought the assassination of an obscure archduke would lead to a world conflagration.

Dozens of Conservative MPs defied David Cameron over Syria - Telegraph
Friday 30 August 2013  By Peter Dominiczak

Dozens of Conservative MPs have openly defied David Cameron to criticise his plans for military action in Syria and side with Ed Miliband.

In a bid to quell the growing rebellion, Mr Cameron had at lunchtime attempted to persuade his MPs to back him by holding a meeting with backbenchers in Parliament.

Sources close to the Prime Minister claimed that MPs left the meeting satisfied and were prepared to support the Government.

However, as MPs debated the Government motion in the Commons it became clear that a large number of backbenchers were preparing to flout Mr Cameron’s authority.

David Davis, the Tory MP for Haltemprice and Howden, who fought Mr Cameron for the leadership of the party in 2005, warned that the intelligence produced by the Government could be wrong. 

“We must consider, being where we've been before in this House, that our intelligence as it stands might just be wrong because it was before and we have got to be very, very hard in testing it,” he said.

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