Brown to "initial" deal in Lisbon

The report comes from the EU's pet poodle in the BBC Mark Mardell who nowadays, not content with his near monopoly propaganda spot in that disgracefully biased organisation, also runs a blog in which he states here: In practice, it means they want to get the Reform Treaty signed off with the minimum of fuss. Well, not actually signed off. The signing won’t come until that December summit. I understand the leaders may be asked to initial a document in Lisbon, so they have their monikers attached to a piece of paper without having formally “signed up” to the treaty. The interesting point here being with what authority can Brown give any agreement let alone append any written form of consent, to a document which will clearly breach the 1688 Bill of Rights, still in full effect. Moves by the Queen to transfer certain powers to parliament announced shortly after Brown became PM seem to indicate Her Majesty recognised the risk of a certain breach of her coronation oath. Brown as a Scottish MP is in an already delicate constitutional position, I had assumed it was one that might not arise until December, but if this "initialing" of documents really goes ahead, our thoroughly untrustworthy PM seems to be going to stare treason in the face this time next week1