A referendum, of sorts
Peter Hoskin 6:34pmGuido helpfully points out that there's now a counter-petition to the anti-ratification one set up by Richard North and Neil O'Brien on the Downing Street website. This new petition states: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Ignore the result of the Irish referendum and ratify the Lisbon Treaty."
So - in a roundabout way - the Downing Street website's now offering a vote on whether the Lisbon Treaty should be ratified. As it is, the 'No's currently lead by 18,590 to 8...
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David Lindsay
June 18th, 2008 6:52pmGordon Brown has never really seen the point of the EU, and today's attempt to defend it was very visibly failing to convince either himself or Jack Straw, whose views are much the same, and the look on whose face was absolutely priceless. He really wanted to do an Irish jig around the Speaker's Chair. And so did Brown. What was stopping them?
TGF UKIP
June 18th, 2008 7:06pmGuido also gives a link to Labourhome which I suggest you follow if you have a particularly cruel sense of humour. Schadenwotsits?!
Pete
June 18th, 2008 7:24pmLets suppose that, by some chance, the vote is NO!!!
What difference will it make, apart from information provided being used for Labour to telephone, mail or email a few selected 'lucky' ones to 'explain' the benefits of the Governments stance on not asking the voters if wants to stop being a democratic country.
Call Me Dave
June 18th, 2008 8:52pmI hit the 'Read More' button thinking there would be digits after the initial 8, apparently I was wrong!