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This morning Stuart Wheeler was granted a judicial review of the Government’s decision to break its promise of a referendum on the EU Constitution.
Reflecting on the Government’s claim that the Lisbon Treaty is completely different to the rejected EU Constitution, the Hon. Mr Justice Owen noted in his argument that “it is plainly arguable that [...]

Professor Anand Menon, the Director of the European Research Institute and Professor of West European Politics University of Birmingham’s interviewed by EurActiv
Claims the Reform Lisbon treaty is not necessary for the smooth running of the EU. He said that just as much legislation was being produced by the EU after the enlargements compared [...]

Of course it is a sad and damming comment on the whole EU system that one small interest group of Irish Farmers can hold such power over the outcome of the Lisbon treaty that will affect over 500 million people. It is indicative of the whole antidemocratic system that the only thing standing between the EU plans for the destruction of 27 nation states is the Irish Constitution

A little local problem
Shropshire Star
MPs voted not to give us a referendum on the EU Reform Treaty by 311 to 248, this is despite all three main parties promising a referendum.
Labour and the Lib Dems both claim that the EU Reform Treaty and EU constitution are different enough not to warrant a referendum - this [...]

Debate on Quaequam Blog
Which claimed the Constitution was 95% the same as the previous treaties.
A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts.

I will go into this a bit later, but first I would like to put [...]

I start from the position that one should never ever sign a legal document unless they are quite clear of the meaning of the document and what the effect of putting their signature to a legally enforceable document the will have in the event of a dispute between the parties.
We are constantly told that this [...]

Archaic at 23
The amusingly named lefty blog Obsolete written by someone who goes by the name of septicisle. Is claiming that although he? Has not read the Lisbon treaty—–

—-wait for it

“one of the few facts I am certain of is that there are two main important differences between the [...]

From a debate in Parliament with thanks to Anne Palmer.

Gisela Stuart is MP for Edgbaston Labour she was born in Germany but moved to Britain in her teens. She was a Presidium Member and UK Parliamentary Representative on Convention for Future of Europe, so she does know of what she speaks.

Ms [...]

To be clear about this treaty, there is a very strong movement to prevent an open debate about the effects of the treaty before it is ratified by the British parliament.
The consolidated text will not be published until after Brown has signed the treaty so there can be no real debate in parliament.

But by signing [...]

Dear Foreign Secretary,
I write to explain why I shall be among thousands of angry and despairing British citizens attending the Referendum Rally in London on Saturday 27th October and [...]

Security Council Seat Lord Malloch-Brown Eureferendum

I have been pondering this for a couple of days, and I am saddened that my first real post for a very long time should be to question one of the icons of our fight to regain our sovereignty both from the EU and our own political class.
Whilst [...]

Security Council seat
Sir - The replacement of our seat on the UN Security Council with a single EU seat (report, August 7) would seriously hamper our ability to form alliances with other non-EU nations or take unilateral action to defend British interests.
We could even find ourselves engaging in a conflict opposed by our [...]

After series of one-on-one meetings with fellow EU leaders, Mr Blair said he was “making progress” on Britain’s four “red line” issues: that the new treaty should not affect Britain’s ability to determine its own labour laws, foreign policy, domestic law on issues such as tax and benefits and criminal and jurisprudence legislation.

A [...]

According to his Telegraph blog,a senior EU Commission official admitted to Daniel Hannan this week, that there are five countries where he and his colleagues are determined to avoid a referendum, I assume on the EU Constitution, they are Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Of course all five could [...]

According to Le Figaro, Nicolas Sarkozy has said that a “simplified treaty” would be necessary for the correct “functioning of the institutions” of the EU.
 
He explained that the abolition of national vetoes in EU decision-making was essential, arguing that “It is inconceivable that a single member state, indeed even two, should be able [...]

Attempts to revive EU constitution
Sir: Richard Corbett MEP (Letters, 10 February) makes great play of the fact that 18 EU member-states have ratified the EU Constitution. He does not mention that most of those countries would have rejected it, had it been put to a referendum. Nor does he recall that it was not [...]

J Clive Mathews seems to be a firm supporter of a utopian European vision, who nevertheless is prepared to support the EU Nightmare that is in reality the only one on offer, in the hope that it will all work out right in the end.  
Having crossed swords with Nosemonkey on his Blog several times, [...]

Was only 25 days ago that the home secretary John Reid said “The constitutional treaty is no more – it is a diseased dead parrot,” less than a month later now we have Europe minister Geoff Hoon saying in the FT“In the UK it had been assumed that the constitutional question was moribund after [...]

“We should not fool ourselves. It’s important now to maintain its values, its principles and its substance.

The Social Platform
The Platform of European Social NGOs is the alliance of representative European federations and networks of non-governmental organisations active in the social sector.

In its Briefing no15 The Social dimension of the European Constitutional Treaty tells us exactly what a Constitution is…..

What is a Constitution?
A Constitution is a text which contains the [...]