In an act of what surely amounts to political treason, David Cameron, the Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, to give him his official title, has set out to undermine one of the biggest planks of the United Kingdom’s foreign policy. He has written to Czech President Vaclav Klaus asking him to delay the country’s ratification of the Lisbon treaty until the Tories get into power in Britain, which he boldly assumes will be at the next general election. The Czech Republic, who with Poland are the last European Union countries yet to resolve the issue, have delayed their ratification until the Irish referendum. But according to the English-language Prague Daily Monitor, Mr Cameron wants the Czechs to delay the decision in order to give a new Conservative Government the chance to hold a referendum in Britain, a policy which hasn’t been officially unveiled in his own country but which is likely to figure large in his conference speech in Manchester.
