Supreme ignorance from Jim Murphy - Europe Minister

I heard Murphy last evening on Channel 4 evening news blathering that the EU Reform Treaty was specific to Britain, that we had our own version and all the others France, Germany, Spain etc., their own. Can this really now be the Government's sole defence for not providing a referendum? I now see this is a line he had earlier fed to the BBC Radio 4 'World at One' programme, the transcript can clearly not be believed by our own diplomats in Oslo who have issued it as a press release, linked here. I will merely quote the extraordinary final paragraph where he actually stated the following: JIM MURPHY: The list goes on of course, Martha, because what happened is that the UK has signed up to a specific unique UK version of the treaty, not only the issue of the protocol that we've spoken about already but the automatic opt-out on new proposals on our criminal justice system, justice and home affairs. So we have decided that we would wish to have a UK-specific version of the new treaty. Other countries of course, and France, Germany, Ireland, will do their own thing in their own way but we're in the business of looking after the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom's interest, but co-operating with Europe when it makes sense to do so and on things like security, the environment, economic liberalisation, of course it does and will continue to do so.