"Precisely"

The last sentence of the British Government's White Paper on negotiating terms for the IGC on the EU Reform Treaty, to be found on page seven of this link, states the following: These remain our guiding principles for the IGC, which needs to follow precisely the terms of the Mandate agreed at the June European Council. As this blog predicted for months the IGC is a complete farce and the mandate from the unconstitutional Europaen Council of the 27 leaders will be what governs the terms of the Treaty. We have been linking to the mandate for a month from various posts but it may be read again at the end of the government's White Paper, linked above, in fact in Annexe B on page 21 of the pdf document. Its inclusion should make clear that no changes will be tolerated, so the remainder of the White Paper is pure tosh. Why do so many opponents of the treaty continue to give the europhiles comfort by believing that anything might change?