An interesting and some might say historic day. For the PM it must have started early as he prepared to give his long-awaited speech on our future relationship with the EU. While Cameron began his speech, I was out running in the cold, crisp air. I caught up with it about half way through and then of course studied it in detail when I got into the office. There is no doubt that we have made the PM move some considerable distance in two years. And while I welcomed the general thrust of his speech, there are still several 'ifs'. The biggest 'if' is if we win the next election! If we don't, I can't see Labour or a Labour/Lib Dem coalition granting us one. You might also like to consider that Britain has been negotiating with the EU for years and we've got absolutely nowhere, so what's the likelihood of things changing now. I would suggest, none. Finally, because I could go on for pages, will this so-called renegotiation include a demand that ALL matters rest with national parliaments, ie the veto is re-introduced. I cannot see this being included and, for me, it must be. I do think that Cameron has opened a Pandora's box and that the EU will never be viewed in quite the same way again. Hopefully, his move will galvanise other countries in this mad, Soviet-style bureaucracy and my dream is that the experiment is finally put down before it does any more damage. PMQs was interesting, consequently, and the PM was cheered by our Back Benches before he dealt with Miliband pretty convincingly. I grabbed a much need sandwich, worked through until early afternoon and then headed to committee room 21 for my select committee. This week we went through our report on the Draft Water Bill, touched on Bovine TB and contaminated meat, before listening to Tim Render and Martin Nesbit on CAP reforms and other EU agricultural matters. Some of the CAP reforms being suggested are plain stupid and I do think the Government should impress on the EU the very high standards that British farmers have now attained and that other countries in the EU should reach before submitting to more waffle from the suits in Brussels. Lots of feedback from the EU speech by the evening, with the big boys and girls in the EU saying Britain cannot cherry-pick. This was to be expected and is going to make any negotiations very, very difficult, if not impossible. Watch this space.