Our ill-informed MPs

I posted yesterday on the first rate speech made by Gisela Stuart MP on some areas of the confidence trick that is the EU Reform Treaty. One aspect of that speech, which in retrospect I find really disturbing, but was not included in the extract I quoted is the following: Now we have the new treaty. In the past two and a half hours I have managed to skim through the first 26 pages of the 118-page document, which is still so far an unofficial translation. Disregarding the fact that it seems incredible that an English version was not made available at the same time as the French, pointing to a further conspiracy to hold the IGC and bury the whole topic entirely during the period of the British Parliament's summer recess, one must query why the MP who represented New Labour during the Constitutional Convention of Mr Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was so ill informed, apparently only learning the content of the Treaty two and a half hours before Parliament's adjournment debate. The mandate that came out of the European Council meeting which the EU Reform Treaty will exactly follow according to the instructions made on that Council's conclusion was available on the internet as can be shown by my posts on this blog here on Sunday 15th July linked here and again here and once more on Monday 16th July, linked from here. How is it that an ordinary member of the public with no research sources other than the internet can retrieve essential information gravely affecting the democracy and assets of the nation (one of my posts was about Blair having given up control of our oil and gas which I have still to see reported elsewhere) when our Members of Parliament seem to be happy to be be quietly left in the dark waiting for the English version of this dreadful Treaty to be provided by the executive only as they leave for their two or more months summer vacation?