Democracy - 2008 style!

How many people have voted for the European Union Treaty? - one, GB, and he was almost absent at the time.

How many days will be given to debating it? The 20-25 days promised was like the Referendum promise itself - not worth much. The Government (GB) has reduced it to 12 days, and pushed this through parliament with a three-line whip. (The sheep mostly in Labour and Libdem colours meekly did as told.

How well does anyone know what the treaty contains? - Very few - an English translation was not available until quite recently, and a deterrent in the document means that you need to follow up references to previous treaties.

What changes are possible? - none! - not a single word, comma, full stop. It is a "take it or leave it situation". "Do you want to go even further into integration, or do you want to have all the opprobrium of the rest of the EU heaped on me?"

Is there a free vote? - what do you think?

So really only Gordon has voted, and democracy suffers another of the thousand cuts which will kill it. And the BBC, the biased broadcasting company, sees nothing amiss and nothing to report!