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white coats. »  Why the U turn?  Tony's U turn on the Referendum
has been perplexing me.  1) He needed to take the heat out of
the Tories who were going to run with it in the Euro elections .
So good reason to announce holding one. 2) He won't win the
referendum, and he doesn't pick fights he doesn't believe he can
win.  So either he is a fool who thinks the public will buy him
being pretty reasonable sort of guy and back him or it is like
the Euro referendum. We still haven't had that one either!  I
bet it isn't going to happen. Either the rest of the
Europolitcos will scupper it as last time, or it gets so changed
that the UK Parliament turns it down. Either way no need for a
referendum and Tony holds the moral highground.   Those who
paint Tony as Europhile are misunderstanding him. The point is
not that he wants to sign the constitution, but rather he
doesn't want to not sign it. He knows the public will reject it,
but it may never actually happe