Both Labour and Conservatives promised a referendum in their 2005 manifestos. Labour won and in due course weasled out of any referendum and, in fact, any serious debate on the treaty itself, just ramming it thru' parliament asap, like the scum they are. The thing to remember about Lisbon is that it's the EU Constitution that was rejected earlier, in all but name. It's also a self-amending treaty so there need never be another one, the EU will have carte blanche from now on. Cameron should hold a referendum regardless but he won't, he's gutless to stand up to the forces driving the undemocratic EU "project".
The Lisbon Constitution/Treaty was passed by UK Parliament and signed by Brown.
When Tories and Cameron win next Spring, the Tory majority can opt out of the Treaty by giving notice. They don't need a referendum.
Kinda like GW gave notice to the Rooskies that U.S.A. was out of the ABM treaty in 2001.
A UK Lisbon Treaty referendum would be nice, also.
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