News Values on Europe
Perhaps those in which Europe stories have to be (to borrow a headline from the Standard) ones about "Chaos".
So it's not big news when the judge said "In the event, the decision of the court is itself clear. We have found nothing in the claimant’s case to cast doubt on the lawfulness of ratifying the Lisbon Treaty without a referendum".
(Full judgement here http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/docs/judgments_guidance/wheeler_pm250608.pdf)
Which seems to me to be the judicial equivalent of "Don't be bloody silly". The Telegraph has the biggest coverage - but then a lot of the comments there ARE bloody silly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/25/dl2504.xml
Not sure why the anti-europeans can't grasp that our law is what parliament says it is - and that it doesn't matter how many of the words in the two documents are the same.


