{"id":304,"date":"2005-01-26T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/26\/question\/"},"modified":"2005-01-26T08:13:54","modified_gmt":"2005-01-26T08:13:54","slug":"question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/question\/","title":{"rendered":"Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4206955.stm\">Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Nosemonkey edit<\/b>: For those who think this sounds a tad familiar, <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/12\/referendum.html\">the wording was originally set at the start of December<\/a> (although the article linked in that post is now behind a subscription wall). It is now, however, as final as these things get. You&#8217;ll also notice that it cunningly leaves room for future maneuverings should this particular constitution prove not up to scratch, as it&#8217;s only &#8220;the treaty&#8221; which is to be approved, not necessarily the constitution itself, which in any case is referred to only as &#8220;a&#8221; constitution&#8230; Not quite as dodgy as the 1975 referendum, but no doubt the more hardened Eurosceptics among you can find some ammunition here.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/constitutional-changes-what-it-means.html\">a summary of what changes the constitution will bring<\/a>, and a quick look by Martin Stabe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinstabe.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/referendum_bill.php\">a major problem with the referendum<\/a> which today&#8217;s bill should be addressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union? Nosemonkey edit: For those who think this sounds a tad familiar, the wording was originally set at the start of December (although the article linked in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/question\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}