Oddly on this matter the Liberal 'Democrats' have a bit to answer for.
They may have been able to point to the coalition agreement as an excuse for many of their other changes of direction, this time around not so much.
http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/europe
Quote:
The Liberal Democrats believe we should have a real vote on Europe - whether we should be in Europe or out.
We have been blocked from having a vote on this in Parliament, and all the Conservatives are proposing is a limited referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
However, the public back our position by a margin of 2:1: twice as many people think a referdum should be on whether we stay in Europe or not rather than only on the Lisbon Treaty.
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Ignoring that the page can't spell referendum properly this would seem at odds with
this.
I appear unable to find anything in the coalition agreement about this so can only surmise that Euro-sycophant Nick was threatened with the loss of his EU pension if he went along with this.
So Liberal Democrats, not especially liberal, and opposed to democracy when they're scared of the answer. Hope they all get wiped out in the next election in favour of a decent alternative.