EU Parliament chief blasts Britain's conservatives

First is pledged a referendum on the EU Constitution. Then, it said that no parts of the EU Constitution could be simply introduced by the back door, after France and the Netherlands rejected it. Then they signed Britain up to the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum, when it is clear that the British people would overwhelmingly reject the treaty, no matter how many times the European Commission makes us vote on it.

In the recent European Elections, parties opposed to the Lisbon Treaty obtained more than 60% of the vote, in an election which had been billed as an unofficial referendum on the Treaty. None of that concerns Mr Poettering. Then he wonders why Britain is Eurosceptic - we simply want democracy.

Mr. Pöttering is absolutelz right! And excuse me but I do not really believe that the elections of the European Parliament had been billed as a unofficial referendum on the Lisbon Treaty! The elections were ''tests'' for the national governments of the EU states.

All the other countries voted taking into account their country's governmental handling of the economic crisis, employment policy etc, and therefore I do not at all believe that the British did otherwise!

What does being eurosceptic has to do with being democratic?
The Labour party is British, the Conservatives are British, UKIP are British! They are all British! Why on earth would the Conservatives and UKIP believe that there should be a referendum, while the government and the Labour Party as well as the Liberals would want to get the Treaty ratified within the Parliament! So the way I see it, it has to do with parties and political beliefs and not with Britain as a nation!

And it is clear that not all British people are eurosceptics!

Well, the Treaty has already been ratified and it would be unbelievable stupid wanting to hold a referendum after the ratification! So Mr. Pöttering is absolutely right! Mr. Cameron is just playing little games to get some more votes over UKIP and Mr. Farage's voters!

Based on the opinion that Britain is in fact eurosceptic, why did most Members of the House of Commons voted in favour of the Treaty?

"Poettering, a German conservative, accused Cameron of playing a "little game" by vowing to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if he becomes prime minister.

He said that holding a referendum at this point would be tantamount to "breaking British promises" since Britain had already ratified the embattled treaty."

No British promise would be broken because the current government did not and do not have a mandate to sign the Treaty. The Labour Party gave a clear and unequivocal undertaking in their election manifesto to give the British people a vote on the Constitution and the British people believe that this holds true for the revised Constitution/Lisbon Treaty. By ignoring this the other EU leaders are complicit in this theft of our sovereignty without our consent and the next government WILL hold them to account and so they should.

as to which EU parliament grouping the conservatives align themselves with, that is the business of the conservative party and their voters, nobody elses business.