The UK parliament has just rejected plans for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, the replacement for the binned EU constitution. The government claims that the treaty differs from the constitution (and is watered down enough) to mean that a referendum is no longer required. The tories (and significant numbers of Lib Dems and Labour MPs) disagree.
I doubt that there are more than a few hundred people in the UK who have read and understand the two documents. I am certainly not one of those.
The issue for the government is that any referendum which is marketed as a pro vs anti Europe vote (which it will turn into, whatever the details that are actually being voted upon) is almost certainly going to be won by the anti Europe side. Should our government really be spending their time trying to avoid having to implement the peoples' wishes?
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