"It is too late for us to do anything about Lisbon."
It not be too late until it has been ratified by all member states.
For a group that has made such a fuss about this being the "last treaty" due to its self-amending nature, to be focussing on a post-Lisbon strategy rather than in preventing it coming to pass in the first place seems to be vanity politics at its worst.
Such an approach will clearly create eu-funded careers for many ukippers and the handful of eusceptic Tory MEP's for years to come, capitalising on the small but useful protest vote, but it will not deliver the stated goals.
I don't doubt that ukippers have the best of intentions, but your strategy is, imho, clearly going to make things easier, not harder for the EU.
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