Cameron and Hague's Lisbon Referendum ploy squashed by Clarke quotation

Yesterday much was made of the normal Conservative double speak about an EU referendum. At Brown's PMQ they were totally crushed, as usual, by Gordon Brown being able to come back with a quote from Ken Clarke now appointed Shadow Business front bencher! I will put the Hansard report of this exchange here as soon as it is published. I quote: Q6. [271549] Mr. David Gauke (South-West Hertfordshire) (Con): At the last general election, the Labour party promised that it would have a referendum on the European constitution and that it would not raise the higher rate of income tax. Given that the Prime Minister is now going to break both those promises, why should the British people ever believe a word he says again? The Prime Minister: On the first question of the European referendum, in the German summit to discuss the constitution-that-was, it was decided that the constitutional concept should be abandoned. That was the issue before us. If I may say so, the shadow Business Secretary, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke), who is not here today, accepted our view that the referendum was not necessary as a result of the changes that have taken place, and he said—this man is a Front Bencher—that the people who put forward the idea of a referendum were crackpot and daft......