As the Green Party candidate who opposed William Hague at the last election, I find myself in the extraordinary position of agreeing with everything he says in this speech. The dishonourable position of both Labour and Liberal Democrats MPs in reneging on their manifesto promise to support a referendum on the EU constitutional changes is shameful & indefensible. The picture William paints of Gordon Brown squirming in the face of an unelected (by European voters) Euro-president lording it over him is a masterpiece of parliamentary rhetoric. It will not stop my critical appraisal of most of his misguided Tory policies, but on this issue I can only wish there were more MPs with William's eloquence in the House. But come the next election, when Green MPs are elected, this will change!
Leslie Rowe
Posted on 5 Feb 2008 7:08 pm
As the Green Party candidate who opposed William Hague at the last election, I find myself in the extraordinary position of agreeing with everything he says in this speech. The dishonourable position of both Labour and Liberal Democrats MPs in reneging on their manifesto promise to support a referendum on the EU constitutional changes is shameful & indefensible. The picture William paints of Gordon Brown squirming in the face of an unelected (by European voters) Euro-president lording it over him is a masterpiece of parliamentary rhetoric. It will not stop my critical appraisal of most of his misguided Tory policies, but on this issue I can only wish there were more MPs with William's eloquence in the House. But come the next election, when Green MPs are elected, this will change!