Bare Faced Lies
They lie, you know they lie, they know you know - but they just don't care!
David Miliband
the Lisbon Treaty is "fundamentally different" from the failed constitution David Miliband
The labour party manifesto (the document that sets out what a party promises to do if they are elected) included a pledge to have a referendum on whether the UK should accept the new European Union constitution. At the general election Tony Blairs' labour party was kept in power with an overall majority of votes in the UK parliament.
The acceptance of the new EU constitutional document was actually stopped in its tracks when it was rejected in referendums in both France and Holand.
Following this rejection of the new constitutional document, the European Union formulated a new document that was to become known as the 'Lisbon Treaty'.
There was some discussion as to how different this new document was to the original constitution - the result of which is that everyone in the world except for a the British prime minister (now Gordon Brown, who replace Tony Blair) and his cabinet say that it is virtually identical to the original constitution. That is the constitution on which the British electorate were promised an election, and that is a promise on which the Labour party were elected.
So this is where Miliband's Bare Faced Lie comes in - he insists that he believes that the two documents are so different that no referendum is required. He knows that is not true, we know that is not true, he knows that we know that it is not true, but he repeats it all the same - and denies us the promised referendum.
