The EU's Neocon Agenda

The Lost Leader writes (in a letter to today's Guardian):

David Clark (Brown risks isolation if he plays veto politics in Europe, May 29) seems to have forgotten that the EU constitution was vetoed by the people of France and the Netherlands in referendums. Attempts by the right in France and Germany to rehabilitate this neocon agenda should be resisted on behalf of all European workers, who suffer most from the politics of privatisation and cutbacks in public expenditure. It is not surprising that around Europe it is parties of the left, and social democrats, that oppose these policies and this constitution. The people of France and the Netherlands rejected the treaty because it attacked the European social model. I have tabled an early day motion in parliament calling on the prime minister and chancellor not to sign any treaty or agreement that affects the constitutional relationship between Britain and the EU at the Brussels summit without consulting the British people in a referendum.

John McDonnell MP

Lab, Hayes & Harlington

Quite. The only thing to add is that any Labour Prime Minister properly so called would veto any EU Constitution, simply on principle. McDonnell would have done, as Attlee, Bevan, Gaitskell, Wilson, Callaghan, Foot, Healey, Kinnock (at least in those days) or Smith would have done. And Brown might yet.