Treaty Trouble

Today Gordon Brown stood in front of the liaison committee and answered questions for one and a half hours from chairmen of the various committees. Meanwhile in Lisbon 26 other leaders from around the European Union were signing the ‘Lisbon Treaty’ or the ‘amending treaty.’ Number 10 diary planners are supposedly the best and have known abut the ‘clash’ for some time now. Have the dairy planners lost there touch or is Gordon Brown just shying away from signing an unpopular treaty?

Is he is shying away? Or is he showing a preference for parliamentary accountability verses signing an unpopular treaty? It is not a hard choice for a man who likes to claim to be more accountable, more of a parliamentarian sort of guy. It’s a shame it’s the wrong decision. He should have rearranged the liaison committee and signed the treaty in full view of the world’s media. Problem is…he is a coward.


Daniel Worley
Secretary, NKCF