How are you getting on with the treaties, Jacob?
Read them yet? Or have you joined forces with Kenneth Clarke?
If you want paper copies, your friendly local office of the European Union can provide them (well, it, i.e. the EU const... er, Lisbon treaty). If you want something that's navigable and which actually makes sense, I warmly recommend the volumes prepared by the
British Management Data Foundation (BMDF).
I have their volumes on Amsterdam and Nice (which has hidden itself somewhere, presently). I tried to order Lisbon, but they've evidently been swamped recently (can't think why). The EU edition of the Consti... er Lisbon treaty is pretty dense and very small print (or at least mine is), but at least they had the magnanimity to produce one.
It is, after all the ultimate constitutional document under which we
all presently live.
The BMDF versions were used by the HoC library, and bought for MPs to use for the few HoC debates we've actually had (on Maastricht, Amsterdam & Nice IIRC), as the EU was "oddly" slow producing volumes in English and their first versions reportedly had mistakes which the BMDF found and corrected.
When Clarke made his famous statement about Maastricht, that he'd voted on it in the HoC without ever having read it (and the man claims to be a lawyer!), he had one fig-leaf excuse -
the official version of Maastricht wasn't made available to the British parliament before the debate. The only one they could use was the BMDF version. Thus was our constitution overwritten...
I don't think the BMDF have a Kindle version, but they might. That said, I prefer Post-Its and being able to pencil things in the margins. And unlike the EU's energy policies,
or the UK govt a book can't run out of power!
Regards,
E.
