Gordon Brown will sign the European treaty, but in private

The daily comments on Gordon Brown's apparent uneasiness while attending the European treaty signature in Lisbon thursday December 13th. "[The Prime Minister] will rise and breakfast at Number 10, face questions from the Commons Liaison Committee, then board a chartered jet and be in Portugal for lunch. He will, regretfully, miss the official signing ceremony for the European 'treaty' that dare not speak its name, but will sign it in private, unphotographed. ... Mr Brown does face two real risks. The first is the certainty that this treaty will be vilified by history. ... The second risk is of ridicule, in verse. 'Sign, sign, sign, they said /' (of Magna Carta). 'Sign King John, or resign instead! / (And King John signed.)' In which context there is one thing to be said for 'Gordon'. It wouldn't scan."

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