My comment to Matthew Parris today

I regularly comment upon the Saturday columns in The Times by Matthew Parris, as he is one of the few within the MMS of the UK who does not restricict himself to reports upon the movements of the shadows on the walls of Plato's cave. I thought I would in future add these to this blog for my own ease of future reference. The column today was on Afghanistan and Parliament and is linked here. My comment was:

Martin Cole wrote:

There is a common thread which runs throughout these arguments. Mr Parris ignores it, but it will not now go away. It is of course the Lisbon Treaty. Our Parliament is now powerless. Both MPs and the Government are neutered, further engagement by our troops supposedly now on behalf of our new Continental masters is pointless. General Motors have recognized the new reality if not the Obama administration. Technology protection was one reason given for canceling the Opel/Magna deal. Any further British soldiers' lives wasted in protecting a special UK/US relationship which post-Lisbon (absent a non-Conservative/Labour/LibDem next govenment)is absolutely doomed, would be an obscenity. Does anybody in Parliament really believe that anything other than that special relationship is involved concerning our presence in Helmand? Do any still believe such a relationship can now have a future?

November 7, 2009 8:42 AM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

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