The Lisbon straitjacket

The following is the concluding paragraph to a letter to The Times today, linked here:

Like the rejected constitutional treaty that it so closely resembles, the straitjacket Lisbon treaty has become part of the problem rather than part of the solution, a sobering truth that would by now have been accepted by bodies less self-absorbed, and less seemingly deaf to constructive questioning of prevailing orthodoxies, than the institutions of the European Union.

Sir Peter Marshall