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Where is our referendum?
ONCE again the matter of a referendum for Europe is in the news.
But this time, it really is only a matter of months before it will be too late for discussion: the EU Treaty will have become an accomplished fact.

Unless we get together to ensure the warmed-up but still recognisable piece of paper does not become ratified by our Parliament.

Gordon Brown is again dodging from here to there in an effort to give the impression he is in charge and is confident in what he is doing, when his actions bely this.

But for reasons best known to himself, he will sign, I am sure, and so I feel it is up to us to prevent things getting further than this.

Despite the promise made in his party's last election manifesto that "we will put the Constitutional Treaty to the British people in a referendum", Gordon Brown clearly has no intention of doing so.

His excuse the treaty is nothing like its predecessor, the EU Constitution, does not hold water.

It is 90 per cent like it, and polls show more than 70 per cent of our people still want the referendum they were promised.