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4 November 2009 Cameron Promises Are Worthless  David Cameron’s decision to renege on his “cast-iron” signed commitment to a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty tells us all we need to know about him and the future direction of the Conservative Party under his leadership. His idiotic excuse – that the treaty is now law – is an insult to our intelligence. It is also demonstrably threadbare.  Perhaps he is too young to remember 1975, when the British people voted in a referendum to ‘stay in the Common Market’.  Membership had been UK law for over two years.  Did no-one remind him? Yet more odious and depressing was Cameron’s implicit admission that the British people could not look to him to protect our sovereignty or our birthright to decide who governs Britain. His offers of a referendum on any future treaties, and to repatriate (unspecified) powers already ceded to Brussels, are equally insulting and pathetic.  Indeed they are even more loathsome since he must already know neither can happen.  The following sequence of events must be blindingly obvious to anyone who has been paying attention.  Are we to believe that Cameron has not? 1.             Lisbon is self-amending.  There will be no more treaties.  His referendum pledge is worthless. 2.             Repatriation of powers is specifically forbidden in the treaties already signed and confirmed in Lisbon.  The EU has always functioned as a ratchet – ‘what we acquire we keep’ - defined in French as acquis communautaire.  Has Cameron never heard how Heath was told to “swallow it all and swallow it now”? 3.             Any attempt by Cameron to claw back some powers will be met with one very simple bureaucratic answer: "Re-negotiation and cherry-picking are not possible.  The treaties specifically forbid it.  But you can leave.  Your country ratified Lisbon.  Now, it's in or out?  Your choice." We all know what will happen then.  He'll buckle, and we get precisely nowhere.  The 2010 election looks increasingly difficult to call, and the prospects of the current bunch of lawless incompetents surviving just improved – against all the odds. There is serious trouble ahead.   To respond to, or comment on this Email, please email ashley.mote@btconnect.com Click www.ashleymote.co.uk to visit the site now.