Bruno Waterfield has an interesting article in today's Daily Telegraph with the headline "EU turmoil revives calls for referendum". Dealing with the point that it has been confirmed redrafting the treaties to ensure beleaguered economies cannot spend too much as a condition of receiving billions of euros in rescue packages and as that involves a transfer of sovereignty necessitating a referendum in Ireland, Waterfield writes:
"Ministers have stopped saying that they plan to use treaty change to take powers back from the EU. This follows private warnings from Germany that it is not willing to trade eurozone "fiscal union" for British opt-outs."So, if that is correct, we now know that repatriation of powers is a dead duck - as we all knew it was anyway - and any future referendum in this country would need to be a straight In/Out choice. That solves one headache for David Cameron, however it does leave him with another; namely if he fancied duck for his Christmas lunch it will unfortunately not be "à l'orange" but "à sauerkraut".
Just saying.............
