Brown continues to ignore the voices of a significant number of his own MPs - maybe 120 of them. He is ignoring the voice of Murdoch as expressed in The Sun, The Daily telelgraph and other media. He is ignoring the leadership and membership of the Trades Unions, and of course he is ignoring the voice of Conservatives, who he somehow has convinced himself he is pulling away from David Cameron.
Brown is focusing his mind on whether he can win an election. If he calls an election and wins it, while making it quite clear that he will not hold a referendum on the Reform Treaty/Constitution, then he could claim to have a mandate to proceed towards Parliamentary ratification only.
The polling on Political Betting shows that if he tries to do this, his lead would be wafer thin, and he probably would lose his overall majority in the process. It would all come down to whether Brown could then in alliance with Liberal Democrats and Tory rebels, get a majority in the Commons for the Constitution.
Even if all it were possible to achieve, which it possibly is, the effect would not be to produce a compliant British membership of the EU. On the contrary, the British nation, which has sat there remarkably tolerantly for a generation while its sovereignty has been reduced and divided down, would feel cheated by the Parliamentary process, which would have denied them their promised referendum. The topic of Europe would become politicised as it never has before.
It would become possible for a leader of the opposition to become more stridently anti-EU and to speak not only in terms of the need for a referendum, but a referendum on the topic of Britain's EU membership total, as proposed by Keith Vaz, and latterly Ming Campbell.
It would be Gordon Brown that turned Britain against the EU, by showing utter contempt foir the feelings of the electorate. Yes, Brown understands how to work the political machinery, possibly better than anyone alive, but he doesn't understand how to deal with people. It's the Great Clunking Fist, that will stir the spirit of rebellion in British hearts as he tries to grind people into acquiescence. He's made all the sums bar one, the willingness or not of Brits to be dictated to.
Someone's done a real job on me this morning (hong kong time). I cannot access my blog.
Last month some goon penetrated my email and started posting stuff on Dale which they could never have known without getting at my private info.
Chris Paul the Labour blogger seemed to be implying some kind of threat to me by publishing that stuff.
I don't know if it's the same bunch this time, but I cannot access my blog currently, so I am having to write in the comments here.
I guess I'll go back to my earlier blogspot address which I left due to someone blocking that blog a few months ago, which was when I started this one at tapestrytalks.typepad.
I could put in all the anti-hacker stuff, but it's very time consuming to operate, and not my bag, and I don't have a techno-assistant to do it for me.
I'll just move on and try to get this blog unjammed as soon as I can.
meanwhile try www.the-tap.blogspot.com where I still get respectable daily read totals, even though I haven't been posting there for a while.
just as Iain Dale put this blog in the top 100 right wing blogs, it's jammed by some goon.
I wonder which bit of writing has upset them this time.
Posted by: Tapestry | September 26, 2007 at 02:54 AM