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Originally Posted by Chris
I believe that's the idea, yes. And Barroso would like it if he could impose that on the UK whether the UK likes it or not. Thankfully we still have a veto on tax issues so he can't. But that simply has him thinking that he would like to re-open the Lisbon treaty for renegotiation in order to try to remove the veto on tax.
... all of which means we very much need the Coalition legislation that will guarantee us a referendum on all future treaty negotiations as soon as possible.
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That legislation is going to have various Liberal Democrat sourced holes in it to ensure that referenda can be avoided.
One half of the coalition threaten to stomp their foot if the other half attempts to use the current European situation in our national interest so I've my doubts that we'll get a cast iron referendum guarantee.