Why vote? Tories aim to scupper treaty

SO our half-Minister for European Affairs Dick Roche is in action again.

He tells the German Council on Foreign Relations we have learned our lesson and will be good little children in future and that the Lisbon Treaty will be passed this time.

His assurances are such that “senior MEPs” are going ahead with a series of votes on the implementation of Lisbon even before we have been forced to vote again. Such respect for democracy. And such is the view of us from within the trough where the mandarins feed.