FCO lying continues

The Times this morning carries an article offering final proof that the EU Reform Treaty is the Constitutional Treaty in different packaging as confirmed by senior EU figures responsible for the original Constitutional Treaty, link here. The Telegraph meanwhile carries a report of German interference in the British proposed ratification procedures, read from here. Meantime the Foreign Office returns to its oft repeated selective quote from the mandate that opposition politicians should by now have totally nailed and repudiated, as follows, I quote: A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: “Let’s be clear, the Reform Treaty is not the Constitutional Treaty – in form or content. The mandate says so in terms, ‘The constitutional concept, which consisted in repealing all existing Treaties and replacing them by a single text called Constitution, is abandoned’. In fact of course the entire paragraph reads as follows: Quote I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 1. The IGC is asked to draw up a Treaty (hereinafter called "Reform Treaty") amending the existing Treaties with a view to enhancing the efficiency and democratic legitimacy of the enlarged Union, as well as the coherence of its external action. The constitutional concept, which consisted in repealing all existing Treaties and replacing them by a single text called "Constitution", is abandoned. The Reform Treaty will introduce into the existing Treaties, which remain in force, the innovations resulting from the 2004 IGC, as set out below in a detailed fashion. Unquote As repeatedly pointed out starting from here in mid-July that means the terms of the old constitution will mainly be retained.