Brown faces challenge over Lisbon treaty.

This is even more good news, on a day that can only be classed as fucking brilliant.

From the man himself...

Stuart Wheeler:

"I believe that there is an overwhelming moral case for a referendum on whether the UK should ratify the Lisbon Treaty because: (1) The Labour Party, as well as all major parties, promised a referendum and they should keep that promise and (2) The contents of the Treaty change our constitution so fundamentally that, irrespective of whether one is for or against ratification, one should be allowed a vote.

Fortunately there is a legal, as well as a moral, basis for demanding a referendum and I have instituted proceedings against the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, in which I seek a judicial review and a declaration that the refusal to hold a referendum is unlawful."

"The Liberal Democrats, who were instructed by their leader to abstain in the House of Commons on the question of a referendum, are to be instructed in the House of Lords to vote with the Government against a referendum. This very odd decision will make it very hard, though not impossible, for an amendment in favour of a referendum to be carried.

The only other chance of a referendum in the UK is in my case. It will not be easy to win it but, if I do, and if the referendum is then won by those who oppose ratification, we may well have saved for our country its right to govern itself. We shall also have changed the course of European history because the Treaty cannot come into force unless every one of the 27 members of the European Union ratifies it."

For more details please visit Stuart's website. A leader in today's Telegraph notes that Mr Wheeler has some key legal arguments on his side.

Should the one eye'd gay in No.10 lose this case his days are numbered literally in days...Mc Brown will not be smiling come the day he has lost this case,,,,,

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