Originally Posted by jim h

Given that a referendum had been denied on an earlier vote the Bill Cash amendment was simply to confirm that that our Parliament remained sovereign which ,of course , the EU reform ( Constitutional ) Treaty denies . Given that it is in the interest of our MPs to pretend that they are the final law makers in the UK it was surprising how few supported the amendment . Effectively it means that our MPs have accepted that the EU is the supreme law making authority and that they are just lackeys and lickspittles.
The Stuart Wheeler case is based on precedent in that an unelected Prime Minister cannot cavalierly decide to ignore a manifesto commitment of his Party made when it was elected and prior to power passing from its then leader to an unelected successor. In this earlier case the Courts decided that the unelected Prime Minister did not have the right to ignore the promise made by his Party and predecessor and as a result a General Election was called and the Party then lost the election.( see Baldwin - Bonar Law ) The other aspect of the SW case is that the Reform Treaty is the same as the Constitutional Treaty as franklly every continental leader agrees and that any reasonable person would expect the Government to honour its manifesto promise.