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Originally Posted by Britannist
There are two main reasons why Gordon Brown did not go for a November 2007 General Election:
He came to the view that Labour's majority in the Commons would be heavily cut (or would go altogether and that there would be a hung Parliament) and because he and his party would have had to fight a General Election campaign with the EU Summit right in the middle of the campaign (drawing attention to the fact that Gordon Brown will not allow us a referendum on the EU 'Treaty).
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I think that sums it up precisely!
I would not for one minute believe the nonsense that Frau Merkel "instructed" Brown not to hold an election. That's a fantasist's view!
It is one thing in being opposed to the legalistic strictures and bureaucratic meddling of the EU in matters which should not concern it and it is quite another to believe that individual leaders of other nations have "control" over our Prime Minister. We can be for or against treaties but a leader usurping the law? Forget it!