The EU once again is unable to understand "No".

The French voted "No" to the Constitution. The Dutch voted "No". The British would have voted "No"??if Tony Blair had kept his clear promise to give us a referendum whatever happened elsewhere on the Constitution.

Now Angela Merkel tells us a great concession has been made by removing the "c" word, so we should be very grateful and live with the large transfer of powers in a new Treaty based on the old one already thrown out in referenda.

The EU’s argument is they cannot let down all the countries that did want the Consttiution and have ratified it or are in a position to ratify it.

Fine - let them have it, and let us have a different deal which not only avoids any further surrender of powers to the EU by us, but gets back the significant powers we have already given away which no longer suits us.

Or let them live by the rules of the game - if any one country disagrees with significant constitutional proposals, then they fall.

If our government was doing its job properly we would not be facing this "crisis" in the EU. They should just have told Mrs Merkel we will not accept any further transfer of power to the EU, so the answer is "No".

Then they could have spent their time talking about something useful. Why not start with plans to repatriate powers over fishing and agriculture, which the EU has made such a mess of? It would help with the world trade talks, where EU protectionism in these areas is one of the obstacles to a deal.

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I was glad to hear Mark Francois, the new Conservative Shadow Minister for Europe, make it so clear on radio that our policy is to offer a referendum on any further transfer of power, just as we called for referenda on Nice and Amsterdam.

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