They're not even pretending - democracy is a sham

Patriotic politician Dan Hannan notes that the European Commission is now sitting illegally. Their terms have expired - all bar one of them anyway - and yet they continue to occupy their posts! They just aren't even pretending to have anything to do with democracy any more.

Don't hope that the Conservatives will give us a chance to vote our own national sovereignty back into our hands though. Not that we should have to. David Miliband, on the analysis of many scholars and commentators, had no right under our constitution to sign this country up to the Lisbon Treaty.

Anyway, Conservative Home is reporting that the Conservatives will not be offering us a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty but, instead, a "manifesto mandate" to renegotiate in some areas.

Now, isn't that exactly what Ken Clarke said would happen many months ago?

Wishy-washy, meaningless piffle.

So... David Cameron. We definitely don't trust him.

Yet somehow - if this is true - we do not expect this to be the end of the story. The backlash against the Conservatives by the public and by their own supporters will happen if those of us who do not want to be part of a European Empire are promised no democratic option.

The huge haemorrhaging of support to UKIP steps boldly forward as a real possibility with every passing day.

Meanwhile, the rest of the political class ought to ask themselves why more and more members of the British public hold them in utter contempt.

A democratic vacuum, the expenses scandal, the curtailing of civil liberties, the breaking of our constitutional laws - that's without even considering the acts of treason and sedition.

It's all outrageous. Really.