Never read the Lisbon Treaty?

There was a very good article in the Times today by Camilla Cavendish.

In it she mentions the Lisbon Treaty and I have copied out the quote below

“The readiness of politicians to relinquish power amazes me. Take the European constitution, now rebranded as the Lisbon treaty. I read all the drafts of that document, spoke to lawyers and became convinced that its calculated opacity was a charter for the creeping takeover of national policy by bureaucrats and judges. There were brilliant MPs who could debate every inch of the detail - David Miliband, Gisela Stuart, David Heathcoat-Amory, Chris Huhne. But I met others who hadn't even read the document and looked incredulous that I had."

"I once ran a construction company. I didn't sign contracts that I didn't understand, especially when they involved other people's money. So I could not believe that on an issue of such consequence - for their own role as well as for the nation - MPs had not done their homework. When the annual EU membership fee is £6.5 billion, when EU directives have driven almost half of the regulations passed here since 1998, and when implementing those regulations has cost £106 billion (according to a recent study by Open Europe), it is not surprising that people ask what MPs are doing. “

I hope Caroline Flint reads this article and is thoroughly ashamed by her admission that she has never read the Lisbon Treaty but it is gratifying to note that, even though the Times seems to be a Party Political Broadcast for the Conservative these days, at least some of their journalists seem to be singing the Libertas tune. Hopefully, as a result, more people will realise that the only way of stopping the Lisbon Treaty is to vote Libertas.

Nick Coke