Don't you realise that opinion polls count as much as elections these days?  That's how eurosceptics know Lisbon was effectively rejected by EU members and the Parliamentary ratification is just a con job.  The Tories are the "Government-in-waiting" with only the unelected Brown acting as a barrier to the democratic process.  The Prospect of Blair getting the Euro job is just so dreadful because it would mean they can't get rid of those awful nuLabour people who usurped their position as the natural party of Government entirely.  Come to think of it, are Tories ever out of power - in their own heads at the very least?

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