Labour MP group to table referendum amendment

The report is in the Guardian, linked here, the following is a quote: A group of 20 Labour MPs this afternoon tabled a wrecking amendment ahead of the second reading of the European Union (amendment) bill, due to be debated in the Commons on Monday. The motion, which also has the backing of Scottish Nationalist party and Democratic Unionist party members, seeks to kill the bill outright. The amendment states: "That this House declines to give a second reading to the European Union amendment bill as no provision for a referendum on the European constitutional treaty is made within it, despite the Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Scottish Nationalist and Plaid Cymru parties all having promised to make provision for such a referendum in 2005." Also in that same newspaper the Labour MP who represented Britain's governing party at Giscard d'Estaing's Convention spells out the reasons why the Lisbon Treaty cannot work, linked here.