tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post701152170923243927..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: Intruiguing, but much too lateOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-38372851794752259852009-10-23T18:04:20.421+01:002009-10-23T18:04:20.421+01:00Part of the reason MPs and Lords felt they were ab...Part of the reason MPs and Lords felt they were able to get away with rubber stamping this Treaty without giving voters a say was the sad fact that they simply weren't hearing about it enough on the doorstep - they weren't being bombarded with angry letters from constituents and they obviously felt they could get away with it.<br /><br />Those people who do know what is in the Lisbon Treaty have managed to make an impressive amount of noise, but if people (including the media) had woken up to this Treaty long before it was even written and presented to Parliament for signature, then we would have been able to make far more - and the Government would not have found it quite so easy to push this thing through Parliament.<br /><br />Seems simple to us. <br /><br />Your question suggests a certain defeatism, which we don't share. Those in favour of 'ever closer union' want you to believe it is inevitable - let's not join them, or they will be proved right :-)Open Europe blog teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16264607701574814301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-22590112348361435192009-10-23T17:36:11.049+01:002009-10-23T17:36:11.049+01:00"so that citizens could actually take an inte..."so that citizens could actually take an interest and find out what was being decided in their name"<br /><br />And what could the citizens have done about it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com