The European Constitution (summary)

My last post concerning the European Scrutiny Committee's report on the Constitutional Reform Treaty was rather lengthy and I want the final paragraph to have more notice paid to it, so here it is :

"Will Gordon Brown now admit that his line from Prime Minister's Questions on 25 July this year "Let me just read from the mandate agreed at the Council:
'The constitutional concept, which consisted in repealing all existing Treaties and replacing them by a single text called ‘Constitution’, is abandoned.'” was at best disingenuous. As his Labour dominated European Scrutiny Committee says "we do not consider that references to abandoning a 'constitutional concept' or 'constitutional characteristics' are helpful and consider that they are even likely to be misleading in so far as they might suggest the Reform Treaty is of lesser significance than the Constitutional Treaty. We believe that the Government must offer evidence if it is to assert that the processes are significantly different."

Come on Gordon, come clean for once...