OK, how about this one from the EU itself:
http://europa.eu/scadplus/treaties/maastricht_en.htm
Or this one:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/info/Maastricht.html
The text is the same in all three.
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my link was pointing out the site you had quoted was run by this man - Anthony Cowgill - well, his name was at the bottom of the web-page above, and this was one of the (very few) review(s) I could find of his book.
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Maybe you missed my edit.
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I've met, at various party conferences, elections and by-elections, and at the House, when I used to do research for, and visit, my MP there -
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So you presumably know what their problems with the Maastricht Treaty were, and yet you still say that Major was a decent honourable man?
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Have you met any of the Maastricht rebels?
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Yes, though not as half as as many as you. Most of them have now crossed over to the dark side or retired now.
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Oh no Foreverwar, I'm a supporter of democracy all right. If you can show me how John Major's Tories were elected on a ticket of giving great swathes of sovereign power to undemocratic EU institutions, with all that that implies, I'll be happy to concede that Major acted as a decent and honourable man. It is the British mainstream political parties, but particularly the hierarachy, that don't support democracy. Many, many years ago they admitted that they would never win the argument for European union in a democratic debate - so they have never had one. This is now known now because official papers were released under the 30 year rule confirming it.
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Well can you? You apparently have all the right connections.