Bob FM: The achievement of Stuart Wheeler, in obtaining a judicial review of the Lisbon Treaty, offers our cause the best hope that it has, in the immediate future, to make some progress. Should the judge concur with the authors of that Treaty that it is virtually identical to the rejected E.U. Constitution, that will be real progress. It is sad that UKIP did not offer Wheeler our support in his endeavour.
Should he win, and he could, Stuart Wheeler could win a significant place in history.
He has already has laid the potential to up-set the time-table for parliament's ratification of the L.T. Brown may procede with a referendum, following confirmation that the GE manifesto promise for a referendum, applies equally to both the EU Constitution and the LT. That would give Brown quite a few political options. He could have a referendum, with a promise to accept the decision of the electorate. Brown could then press the tories to endorse that promise. A 'yes' in the referendum, followed by an election, which in the present climate the Conservatives could win, (only political climates can change quickly), the Conservatives would then be confronted with a verdict from the referendum which they did not want, and the admission to the EU of Turkey, which they enthusiastically support.
Having obtained what is believed to be, the best First Class degree from Edinburgh University, by any student in the post-war years, followed by an exellent Ph.D.
Dr. Brown, PM, must now demonstrate that he has a comparable political talent. We must wait and see, what the final consequences of Stuart Wheeler's initiative will be.
But these are the kind of situations from which vitally important consequences can emerge.
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