Brown's duplicity on EU Reform Treaty

Even the leader writers on the Daily Telegraph are finally beginning to twig the extent of Gordon Brown's deep involvement in the selling out of British sovereignty to the EU. Their comment today, linked here, concludes as follows: Mr Brown's altered demeanour is alarming: either he is simply out of his depth in the EU summitry game or he never was the adamant protector of national sovereignty he had led us to believe. In either case, the need for a referendum on what may eventually be called the "Lisbon Treaty" is greater than ever. At least the Telegraph mentions the EU President's visit and press conference, the rest of the media seem to have ignored the visit of our effective ruler for the next six months! The detail of the press conference is on the Downing Street web pages, linked here. From that the EU President spells out in absolute clarity the impossibility of changing any detail of the mandate, on which this blog warned for months, and which intent was and IS being ignored, not least by the new British PM in his subsequent reply. What Socrates stated is surely impossible to deny, but has it any legality?....

Mr Socrates:

I think that we have a very clear and precise mandate and it will be very easy to pass from the mandate to the treaty. To compromise things, the agreement with Great Britain was very clear during the Council so I will not anticipate any problems with Great Britain during the preparation of the next treaty. The importance is to do the job very quickly in order to pass the mandate to the treaty. We have a mandate to transform the mandate in a treaty, we have not a mandate to open the mandate and everything is very clear on the mandate. Once again we will have no problem with Great Britain ... and I think we can do it and do our job from July to October, with the support of the Prime Minister and Great Britain.