{"id":456,"date":"2007-08-28T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=456"},"modified":"2007-08-28T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T22:05:00","slug":"just-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/just-impossible\/","title":{"rendered":"Just impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=V0DEMBTWA2GAZQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=\/news\/2007\/08\/28\/neu228.xml\">lists <\/a> what the Labour rebels who are demanding a referendum on the new EU treaty want as their price for dropping this demand.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of the items could possibly be arranged by an additional British opt-out, but the majority involves preventing the rest of the countries from doing what they want.  For instance, to &#8220;drop plans for further extension of majority voting and stick with the provisions agreed in talks on the Nice Treaty in 2000&#8221; is just impossible &ndash; this is one of the major reasons for the new treaty in the first instance.<\/p>\n<p>There is no way Brown can give in to these demands, even if he wanted to.  So it will be interesting to see if they&#8217;ll actually force him into a referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with a referendum is what to do if the British vote No.  The other countries might offer a few additional opt-outs, but anything as radical as this list will be turned down, and I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s likely the UK would be forced to leave the EU, possibly after a second referendum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph lists what the Labour rebels who are demanding a referendum on the new EU treaty want as their price for dropping this demand. A couple of the items could possibly be arranged by an additional British opt-out, but the majority involves preventing the rest of the countries from doing what they want. For instance, to &#8220;drop plans for further extension of majority voting and stick with the provisions agreed in talks on the Nice Treaty in 2000&#8221; is just impossible &ndash; this is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}