there is a solution to this, which is to take up the suggestion from one of your mps, anders jonsson,erendum. does that appeal to you? have a proper debate about it and resolve it in a sense for a generation, one way or another. when we entered nato, there was no referendum and there maybe should have been. that was in 1949. you are the prime minister now. you were a relatively new country, not much choice injoining. a lot is changed since then. you are the prime minister, if you want a referendum. we have a compromise on the government manifesto that we will follow a national security policy and... go on, try it on your party. say, i've given ground and all these things. i've given you ground on climate change, how fast we progress, i've given you ground and lots of things because i'm trying to make this form of government work. yeah, but... cut me some slack here, let me have a referendum on nato. let me show my party that there is something worth having a green pm. now you are assuming that they are not giving me any ground and i don't think that's a right assumption because what w