Graham Stringer, Liebour MP for Manchester Blackley, reveals that the Liebour whips tried to convince him to vote for the Reform Treaty because it was in their manifesto but points out that the only treaty in their manifesto was the EU Constitution.  The whips are telling their MPs the Reform Treaty and Constitution are one in the same so how can any MP vote against the promised referendum?

Stringer suggests that MPs who are saying that their constituents aren’t capable of understanding the EU Constitution use their communications allowance to write to their constitutents and tell them just that which is met with a laugh from both sides.

David Curry, eurofederalist Conswervative MP for Skipton and Ripon, says that he entered politics to get Bwitain into Europe and that’s what has kept him going.  He agrees that the EU Constitution and the Reform Treaty are basically the same but says that Bwitain’s obligations aren’t the same.  Quite bizarrely he suggests that when (not if) climate change forces large-scale population movement then we’ll want closer policy management in Europe.

Ian Davidson, Liebour MP for Glasgow South West, criticises the British government’s interference in Portgual that lead to them deciding not to hold a referendum on the EU Constitution.  The Deputy Speaker tried to tell off Davidson for saying the Lib Dums talked balls all the time but was having trouble keeping a straight face.  Davidson reads the final line on the last page of the consolidated changes of the reform treaty which says “Printed on paper containing 75% recycled material”.  Brilliant.

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Austin Mitchell, Liebour MP for Great Grimsby, just made a fairly entertaining speech in which he congratulated a Tory MP on his speech and criticised his colleagues for claiming that the EU Constitution will solve all our problems.  Shame it’s only been heard by the very small handful of MPs that have bothered to turn up.

Some key comments from his speech:

“If it looks like a constitution, if it reads like a constitution, if it reads like a constitution then it’s a constitution and it does us no good to deny this”

“It’s no good telling us black is white, because it isn’t”

David Heathcote-Amory, Conswervative MP for Wells, points out that the EU Constitution will be the last treaty to come before Parliament because it’s self-amending and that there is a question mark over the right of the Commons to bind its successors.  There’s no question of course, they have no right whatsoever.

Has anyone noticed the difference in the ties on either side of the house?  Tacky ties on the Liebour side, posh ties on the opposition side – whatever happened to the classless society Liebour promised?.

There are only about 20 MPs in the Chamber, how can those who haven’t bothered to listen to the debate cast a vote?  They don’t have all the facts.

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I’m watching the EU Constitution debate on the BBC website.

Liebour seem to be hinging their entire argument on “what’s good for Europe” and “if we didn’t have a referendum on Maastricht under the Tories, why do we need one on the EU Constitution?”  Pathetic really – they’re debating the wholesale transfer of the governance of our country to Federal Europe and all the Liebour traitors can do is try and score points off the Tories for something that happened over a decade ago.

Bill Cash is putting up a brave fight but the verdict is a foregone conclusion – even with 20-odd Liebour rebels, the Illiberal Dumbasses will make sure that their eurofederalist colleagues in Liebour get the result they want.

More updates as anything interesting happens.

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