Brownian New Labour is gagging. Gagging on its own vomit, gagging on its financial and economic incompetence, gagging for the Lisbon Treaty to be in place before our general election. And the Lisbon Treaty is Brown's saviour in his 'vision' of post-democratic progressive governance. Brown has presided over the evisceration of any parliamentary discussion and potential opposition to the Lisbon Treaty. Brown has ignored widespread doubt outside of Parliament and ratified and deposited the United Kingdom's acceptance of post-democratic progressive governance at Rome.
The 'chaos' he fears is his loss of control, office, future for his clients and himself as the United Kingdom stands with Ireland, Poland (once again), the Czech Republic (not again but the shame of our last failure might this time be expunged), and the people of Germany who have every reason to fear the goals of their government. The 'chaos' produced by the general election in our country will be the end of a federal, state capitalist, anti-democratic Europe.
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It may be interesting to see which group manages to seize the opportunity of public outrage and confusion to turn events in their preferred direction. If the economy continues to implode and the political system to unravel, this could become a time when unorthodox ideas may thrive.
Brown has also ignored and sidelined a very explicit manifesto committment to hold a referendum on this issue - which is as near as we get in the UK to a firm promise made to the electorate.
I am not sure if it would be good politics for Cameron to promise rejection - one can imagine the sort of response Labour would produce to such a pronouncement ("Same old little-Englanders, etc etc").
But he certainly could, and should, make a firm promise to hold the referendum that Labour promised but withheld. Such a move would allow him to claim democratic credentials while showing Brown up for the authoritarian despot that he is.
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