Cameron starts purging eurosceptics as EU leaders say they don't know what he wants

The eurosceptic purge has started in the Conservative Party as David Cameron's own MPs openly criticise him for being dishonest over his mythical renegotiation.

Cheryl Gillan, Sir Edward Leigh and Christopher Chope have been sacked from the EU Council for supporting proposals to apply Purdah regulations to the EU referendum to prevent the British government and other public bodies from abusing their position to influence the outcome of the referendum. Cameron was opposed to the restrictions as it will make it harder for ministers to disseminate pro-EU propaganda just before the election to try and swing the all-important undecided vote.

Meanwhile, his own MPs are starting to turn against him, calling on him to be "open and honest" about his supposed renegotiation after the Prime Ministers of Finland and Estonia said they haven't got a clue what Cameron wants because he's not told them.

Cameron has responded to the criticism by saying that the negotiations are "going well" and that they'll be accelerated when he writes a letter to the EU Council president next month telling other EU leaders what it is that they're supposed to have been negotiating all year.

True Finns come third in Finnish election

UKIP's partners in the EU Parliament, True Finns, have come joint second by votes in today's Finnish general election with 19.1% of the vote.

The party has gone from political insignificance 4 years ago to finish in third place today and may end up a major player in the coalition that will be formed to govern Finland in the coming days.

The final results are:

• National Coalition Party 20.3% (44 seats)
• Social Democrats 19.1% (42 seats)
• True Finns 19.1% (39 seats)
• Center Party 15.8% (35 seats)
• Left Alliance 8.1% (14 seats)
• Greens 7.2% (10 seats)

Good Luck Timo

Finland goes to the polls today to elect a government and politicians across the EU will be watching it with great interest.

The True Finns Party, led by Timo Soini, is polling level with the europhile establishment parties and one of their "red lines" that they won't compromise on in coalition talks is their insistence that Finland's membership of the EU must not be formalised in the Finnish constitution.

True Finns have been campaigning against Finland's involvement in bailing out Portugal, with Soini asking "Why should Finland bail anyone out? We won't allow Finnish cows to be milked by other hands".  He's a eurosceptic of sorts, pointing out that Greece and Portugal have little in common with Finland and his party sits alongside UKIP in the sceptic/reformist Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD).  Like UKIP, the True Finns Party are also campaigning against unfettered immigration.

While the True Finns are some way left of UKIP, we do have a lot in common and of course on the big issue of the European Empire, we're certainly on the same side.

True Finns Party level with Finnish version of LibLabCon

The True Finns Party is polling the same level of support as the Finnish equivalent of the LibLabcon, the CenSocNatCol.

This is worrying the EU and the cosy club of Finnish eurohpile parties because the True Finns are the Finnish equivalent of UKIP and, in fact, sit in the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group in the EU Parliament.

This is good news, we need eurosceptics in every country in Europe if we're going to be successful in slowing down the EU takeover for long enough for the UK to still exist when we're in a position to get out.

p.s. Why are the Guardian calling them "far right"?  They're a socialist party.