Quote Originally Posted by Khendraja'aro View Post
Well, let's see. Nice, and later Lisbon, did indeed change some stuff from unamity to QMV. Strangely enough, this change required a unanimous vote. So, you're complaining about rules you yourself established.

I think that's what the word "hipocrisy" is for.

Oh, and regarding "routinely": let's have a look at 2008 (since that's a year easily found). How many times were you outvoted?

So, there were 147 Council decisions. 128 of them passed unanimously. For the rest, there was a number of abstentions (32 in total) and 8 real counter votes.

Two by Luxembourg, and one each for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Netherlands, and Portugal.

Yeah. "Regularly", my ass.
I voted against Lisbon not for it. Well as close as possible to it I voted for a party pledging a referendum on the EU Constitution as it was then called when we had an election as Indeed did all UK parties in the 2005 election. Unfortunately because the Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch it was rebranded Lisbon and passed without asking the French, Dutch or indeed the British what we think. And we in fact threw out the Brown government that did that dirty deed and the rest is history.

I'm a firm believer that no government should bind it's successors and so no in no way do I accept we endorsed Lisbon. Brown's government did violating his parties manifesto and was chucked out of office afterwards. If this was a regular piece of legislation domestically we could repeal it but because it was an international Treaty that was not an option.