Career first and Democracy can Die?

A quote from the Financial Times, linked here:

The threat of a backbench rebellion was raised after Ian Davidson, a Labour MP and long-time eurosceptic, wrote to the prime minister asking him to listen to his “own people rather than the European political and bureaucratic elites”. His letter followed a decision by pro-European unions to support a motion for a referendum at next month’s TUC Congress because the treaty threatened workers’ rights.

Mr Davidson claimed to have widespread private support, including ministers, but said the MPs had yet to speak out because “it is not a career enhancing move”. The link came from a well linked summary on the Reform Treaty in the US Jurist site, linked here, it is some small comfort that Europe's edging towards non-democratic tyranny is at least being followed by some with a knowledge of the concept of the fragility and importance of individual rights and the desperate need for the ballot box as a veto on the abuse of power. Euractiv has more on the MEP press release covered earlier, here. They believe political issues will now be raised!