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The Lisbon Treaty’s content should be irrelevant
Posted on Jun 25 2008 | Tagged as: Farce
I see that this attempt to force the referendum that we were promised on the Lisbon treaty has failed.
What’s perhaps most annoying is this:
“Wheeler argued that the public had a “legitimate expectation” that there would be a referendum because Labour promised a referendum on the EU constitution in its 2005 election manifesto and because the Lisbon treaty was very similar to the constitution.
“But, in their ruling, the judges said that the constitution and the Lisbon treaty were not the same.“
[My emphasis.]
Given that, as Labour backbencher Ian Davidson pointed out during Parliament’s “debate” on whether to bother with a referendum, the decision to include the commitment to a referendum in Labour’s 2005 manifesto was made before they knew what the (then-) constitution would contain, isn’t the difference between the proposed constitution and the Lisbon treaty completely irrelevant?
Frustrating
Posted on Mar 07 2008 | Tagged as: Farce
Pub quiz machines now won’t allow entry of a rude name for their scoreboards.
PaperSpacePlanes
Posted on Feb 10 2008 | Tagged as: Science, Farce
A Japanese astronaut is planning to release some paper planes in orbit later this year:
Should one of the fleet miraculously make it to Earth, its journey will have been about 300 miles, no doubt the longest flight for a paper plane.
The planes are statistically most likely to land in the sea. But if one floats down to solid ground, the lucky finder will be able to unfold it and discover the return address at the Japan Space Agency.
“It’s going to be the space version of a message in a bottle,” Professor Suzuki said. “It will be great if someone picks one up, We are thinking of writing messages on the planes saying, ‘If found, please contact us’, in a couple of languages.”
Contact them? I’d try eBay first.
A day out in London
Posted on May 17 2007 | Tagged as: Farce
Help my crazy friend
Posted on Feb 22 2007 | Tagged as: Farce
Support the campaign to organise a sponsored base jump off Lindsey Lohan.
Food. And money.
Posted on Jan 26 2007 | Tagged as: Farce
Matt’s been having fun writing to companies about their food again. I loved this response:
“…we do produce a Special edition three-finger KitKat but it is produced for the Middle East to match a denomination of the local currency, making the product a convenient, one-coin purchase.”
What about inflation? Is the local currency artificially pegged to the KitKat?
