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David Cameron is set to announce within days that he will not call a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if he takes power and it is already law.
He is expected to sound a retreat on his "cast-iron guarantee" only after the treaty has been ratified by Czech president Vaclav Klaus, the last European leader to hold out against it.
The signing is expected next week. Mr Cameron's decision would dismay but not surprise Tory eurosceptics.
Soundings by the party leadership suggest he will not face a major revolt nor the withdrawal of backing from the Eurosceptic Sun newspaper.
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Once Cameron reneges on a referendum on the Lisbon treaty he will become "Dave the Cave" I suppose.
- Melvyn Windebank, Canvey Island, Essex, 03/11/2009 14:29
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I thought these people went to good schools and studied law?
The only way to usurp the sovereignty of the British people is to remove them from the land - including the Queen.
For goodness sake Madam, why are you dithering - dissolve Parliament now. If you don't have the stomach for it retire and leave it to your son or grandson!
- Mac, Glasgow, 03/11/2009 09:29
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FFS How can we be denied a referendum vote because a Constitutional Treaty requiring one was railroaded through Parliament, illegally, on a lie.
If any Politician anywhere in this country has one shred of conscience left in them they will repudiate this disgusting immoral sell out and give all of us back our inalienable right to say who governs us at the ballot box.
- Robc, Ipswich, 30/10/2009 16:29
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Joe Murphy - get your facts right. Cameron's "cast iron guarantee" was made in the run up to the "election" which Brown bottled and well before many nations had ratified. It was never intended to apply after ratification by all nations.
- Perdix, UK, 30/10/2009 16:10
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I don't believe The Sun is eurosceptic. Anyway, I'll be voting and supporting UKIP. Loads of doorstepping and leafleting to do I suppose. I'll volunteer asap.
- Beverley, Hertford, 30/10/2009 16:00
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One thing I liked about Margaret Thatcher is that she could make decisions, even if some of them were wrong, this is what makes a true leader, And David Cameron is looking better all the time, he can now openly say that he has re-considered his stance on the Lisbon Treaty after taking advice from previous Conservative chancellors, and those of us who thought that previous Conservative eras were good still have fond memories of the big names which are still around today, although perhaps not in government, get these old timers into a think tank, be seen to taking advice, and most of all, dont stop.
- Jim Allan, Lake District, 30/10/2009 15:03
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He was never going to allow one anyway....if he got in, and I hear more people saying that if he's another Tony Blair which it seems, they might as well vote Liarbour.
- P Staker, London, 30/10/2009 14:55
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Well, at last we know where he stands. No big surprise. A weasel, like I expected. He and his party won't get my vote next year. Instead my vote next year, and in all successive elections, will go to the party working to give the British people a say as to the country in which they live -- U.K.I.P. The U.K. is already >70% run from offshore by the central government in Brussels. It doesn't matter what Cameron or Brown or Clegg promise in an election if they don't have the power to deliver it. Those powers are almost all gone, given away offshore. The British people have lost their power to self-govern without any say in the matter. Welcome to the new country, European Union, founded on deceit and lies and lack of democracy.
- Phil Jones, London UK, 30/10/2009 14:39
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