Calling all extremists

The extremists here are those who want a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, otherwise the EU Constitution, according to David Miliband.

"Extremist" was the word he used in an interview. He also went on to claim that the Tories will reduce our influence in Brussels. I hadn't noticed that the vast majority of us, who have all sorts of things stuffed down our throats without any hope of redress, have had any influence hitherto. Only Gordon Brown has voted so far on the Lisbon Treaty, without consulting us.

I wonder if many people in this country would label Miliband an extremist, rather. He is happy to have a major democratic deficit, deny our citizens any voice on a major loss of British sovereignty, (as future decisions will be made without treaties), watched as our traditions and institutions were killed off in the name of uniformity and major industries such as fishing destroyed.

Is it extremist to want your country to prosper and above all to want to governed by elected representatives rather than unaccountable eurocrats? Is it extremist to want to bring to heel the wasteful and corrupt parts of the Brussels machine? I suspect not, for the large majority of people in this country who are becoming angrier by the year.