So, What happened, Mr Cameron?

"My freedom is more important than your great idea."
Anonymous

Reverting to a subject that Cameron would rather everyone forgot, let us go back in time to his infamous "declaration" - which incorporated what is probably the greatest example of 'back-peddling' ever known - following the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

"If we win the next election, we will amend the European Communities Act 1972 to prohibit, by law, the transfer of power to the EU without a referendum. And that will cover not just any future treaties like Lisbon, but any future attempt to take Britain into the euro. We will give the British people a referendum lock to which only they should hold the key - a commitment very similar to that in Ireland. This is a major constitutional development."

Ok, he may not have "won", but he ended up in 10 Downing Street, so one could ask: and the difference is? Anyway, there is nothing in that statement that stated the British people would be denied that lock until after 2015.

Cameron continued:

"But I believe it is now the only way to reassure the British people that powers cannot be given away without their explicit approval in a referendum.It is not politicians' power to give away - it belongs to the people......Let me repeat: a Conservative government will guarantee a referendum if there is any attempt to transfer further powers from Britain to the EU. "

 So the fact that this nation no longer has total control over settings its own budget is not a loss of power? Ok, it may not be a Conservative government - we all appreciate that in reality it is a Liberal Conservative government and one that is Conservative led, but again one has to ask: and the difference is? So, where is our referendum then, Mr. Cameron?

Cameron also said:

"Because we have no written constitution, unlike many other EU countries, we have no explicit legal guarantee that the last word on our laws stays in Britain."

Err, from the Bill of Rights 1688 (still on the Statute Book, I believe):

"And I doe declare That noe Forreigne Prince Person Prelate, State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authoritie Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme Soe helpe me God."

Lost your ability to read and sense of understanding of our language then have you, Mr Cameron?

It is also worth noting this sentence:

"The third area where we will negotiate for a return of powers is criminal justice."

The Government must decide by 2014 whether a whole raft of EU police and justice laws agreed before the Lisbon Treaty took force in 2009, including the European Arrest Warrant, will continue to apply in the UK beyond 2014. So besides negotiating for a return of powers in criminal justice, Cameron will not be agreeing to the continuation of the raft of policies mentioned in the previous sentence, presumably?

All things considered - and bearing in mind the quotation at the head of this post - perhaps Mr. Cameron would take his idea of EU membership and deposit it in the repository of all the other bad ideas; said repository being one item of office equipment that, like all offices, Cameron's presumably has!