Red lines and the EU Treaty

An interesting discussion on the Toady Today programme about the Government's red lines. You can listen to it here, it starts at 23:47 into the tape, as usual the BBC try and push contentious EU pieces to the margins of the Today programme, in this case 08:55.

The discussion is in the format of two experts being moderated by Edward Stourton. The experts are Martin Howe, a QC specialising in European law, and Alan Dashwood, Professor of European Law at Cambridge. Professor Dashwood says the red lines are strong and will keep us safe whereas Martin Howe says they won't. As Edward Stourton says at the end of the five minutes "I am not sure whether our listeners are necessarily any the wiser whether these things do or don't matter". Unlike Mr Stourton I don't think that is a matter for laughter but how are the public to know who is right and who is wrong?