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Brown and Nu-Labour insist that the Lisbon Treaty is different from the rejected Constitution, thus a referendum on ratification of the treaty is not important and will not be allowed. Valerie Giscard-d'Estang, who co-authored both the constitution and the treaty (so he should know) says it is 98% the same document.

I voted against remaining in the Common Market, as it was then, in1975. I have seen or heard nothing in the succeeding years to convince me that I was wrong. Indeed almost everything I have seen or heard about the Common Market, the EEC and the European Union convinces me that it is the most colossal waste of time and money. It creates the environment where large and small scale frauds not only thrive but, become institutionalised. It robs each of the sovereign nations of Europe of their their very sovereignty and their individual identities.

The EU is a beurocratic cancer, which must be resisted at every step.

Of course our respected Member of Parliament will, as usual, do whatever the Labour whips tell him to do, so there is not much point in lobbying him before this evenings vote. However, a note pointing out that actions have consequences and that the people of Hyndburn have a long memory when it comes to deciding who will represent us in the next Parliament, would not go amiss.