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Showing a little realism Tony Blair has said that it is up to France and the Netherlands to decide on whether they can ratify the EU Constitution. “The EU constitution depends on a change in the French and Dutch positions, so in a sense it is for them to come forward and say how this can be done before we can really know how that moves on,”

Despite all the arguments about continuing the ratification process, Blair is right, if at the end of the day France and Holland do not state clearly what moves they will take to reverse their respective referendums the constitution can not come into force.

It would now be nice if Blair were to also say that until such a plan is forthcoming from France and Holland that the anticipated application of parts of the Constitution should cease. But pigs might well be flying over Whitehall before the obvious implications of the rejection of the constitution are taken on board by Blair and Co.