29/07/2007
No less than five pieces in
The Sunday Telegraph today: a
front page story, a
background piece, a robust
opinion piece from Gisela Stuart, a
leader and
Booker.
"One of Tony Blair's last acts was to renege on a promise and it is almost unbelievable that one of Gordon Brown's first has been to do the same," says Gisela Stuart . "There is still time for Gordon Brown to put this right."
It is not the lie that offends so much as the brazenness, adds the leader. When Gordon Brown claims that the EU's "Reform Treaty" is different from the rejected constitution, he is making a claim so risible that an eight-year-old would see through it.
And from Booker, we get:
Yet the more we examine this plan to hand over, irrevocably, all our remaining powers to govern ourselves to this new form of government, the more apt it seems that the final extinction of our parliamentary democracy should be rammed through on the basis of such a breathtakingly shameless lie.
On top of that, we get references in
The Observer and
The Sunday Times.
However much Brown may wish it to go away, the EU referendum is remaining firmly fixed in the media.
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