How Can We Stop the Euro-Constitution?
From the desk of Daniel Hannan on Mon, 2007-11-12
To be frank, we’re running out of options. Labour plainly isn’t going to concede the referendum it promised, and the nauseating U-turn by the LibDems gives Gordon Brown a clear majority in both Houses of Parliament.
In the past, the sight of other countries voting on our future galvanised the British. But this time, the 27 EU leaders have entered into an anti-democratic pact. They know that a referendum in one country would lead to demands for a vote in others, and so have promised each other to hold no polls at all. Only in the two states where a referendum is constitutionally obligatory, Ireland and Denmark, will there be a vote; and the Danish one looks like being on the abolition of one of the Maastricht opt-outs rather than on the constitution tout entière. Besides, both campaigns will come after British ratification.
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Friday, 16 November 2007
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