LOCK YOUR DOORS, EUROPES COMING!

With Miliband's constant denials of a leadership challenge finally being taken seriously by his supporters and the press, it would appear that Brown’s passage to the throne is clear bar a few minor spats along the way. But whilst Blair talks about the legacy he will leave the country when he retires, what will he be leaving his erstwhile cohort Gordon? Basically, a crocked pot! With the NHS on the verge of calling in the receivers, tax options virtually exhausted, the economy on the brink of an abyss and Iraq on a steady course to annihilation, Brown’s garden doesn’t look to rosy!

However, what has been conveniently ignored by the propagandists in both camps is that ever contentious issue of the European Union and all things foreign on “that side” of the water. The EU is one of the very few subjects which gets all political parties excited (as much as the Liberals can get excited). Whilst Brown may worry where he is going to get the funds to bail the country out of the mess he created, it is with Europe that he could find himself facing serious problems.

With its new constitution on hold since 2005 (when the French and the Dutch unceremoniously gave it the boot) European mandarins have been slaving away in an attempt to find another way to inflict it on the masses. Under Germany’s six month presidency somebody had a “eureka” moment and decided to “chop” the constitution up into sections and introduce them separately. In this butchered form the codicils can be classed as “mini treaties” and would not require member state referendums. Very clever and very sly, but not as sly as Tony who has gone along with the conspiracy and added Gordon’s name and address to the petition, probably without even asking him. Blair told the FT when asked if a referendum was needed;

“No. If it is not a constitutional treaty, so that it alters the basic relationship between Europe and the member states, then there isn’t the same case for a referendum”

There you are then, the answer to the old conundrum “when is a constitution not a constitution, when it’s a treaty stitch up”. But what Tony didn’t tell the FT was that these treaties cover everything the constitution did, incorporating defence, taxation and foreign policy, all issues that when given the go ahead will hit Brown like a returning boomerang.

So far there haven’t been too many voices of descent, perhaps because Labour have adopted there usual “if we can’t see it doesn’t exist” stance and the Liberals actually have no objection to Blair’s tactics. There only remains William Hague who has commented on the longer game which is being played here;

“What he (Mr Blair) is saying now sounds suspiciously like an attempt to introduce elements of it by the back door, despite its decisive rejection the voters of France and Holland”

Here, here!

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