HAS BRITAIN SIGNED AWAY IT'S INDEPENDENCE? [+] serious ballot by Kev24 ACTIVE Thu Dec 13, 07 - Sun Dec 16, 07 FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband signed the hated EU treaty - hours before Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Lisbon. Due to the PM's delayed arrival, Mr Miliband was the only foreign minister to attend the televised ceremony alone, amid a stream of prime ministers and presidents from the other 26 EU states. Mr Brown was due to put his name to the Treaty of Lisbon - which replaces the failed EU Constitution - after he joined the other EU heads of government at a private lunch following the official signing ceremony. The news will be a blow to the country - The Sun's EU petition has received 28,000 votes saying no to the Treaty. Today’s ceremony took place in the beautiful surroundings of Lisbon's 500-year-old Jeronimos Monastery. Country by country, presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers of the EU nations were called up to put their names to the document. Only Mr Miliband went to the podium alone to inscribe his name on Britain’s behalf. He also took part in the official “family photo” following the signing of the Treaty without Mr Brown. The PM's absence is expected to prompt speculation that he did not want to be pictured signing the book. Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said: “What will other EU leaders think of a Prime Minister who dithers for a week about whether he dares be photographed putting pen to paper? “Does he think that other European prime ministers don’t have diary commitments too? Instead of leadership we have indecision, gutlessness and broken election promises. Britain deserves better.” The developments come despite an eleventh-hour bombshell that it means surrendering control of Britain’s immigration policy. The warning was issued to the PM last night as he prepared to wave the white flag over our right to make our own laws. It emerged tens of thousands of foreigners facing the boot from the UK will be winners. They will get new rights to overturn decisions by Britain’s Immigration and Asylum Tribunal. It means failed asylum seekers will be free to take their cases to the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg — giving the final say to unelected EU judges. And it is all thanks to a treaty critics warn is practically the SAME as the ill-fated EU Constitution, which bit the dust two years ago after the French and Dutch rejected it in referendums. ^ should they have signed? does it mean a loss of self-government and a surrender to a bureaucracy that will be calling the shots for the u.k? it was right to sign it was wrong to sign we're screwed Ballot #119791 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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