European Union Bill

For the sake of accuracy about what happened, is the noble Lord not aware of the fact that in France a major part of the no vote on the constitutional treaty was because of the argument that that treaty was not sufficiently social? People like Laurent Fabius made it part of their campaign that, ““It’s not that we’re against Europe, it’s that this isn’t for a sufficiently social Europe””. In that sense, the argument was right; this was a vote not against Europe but against a particular view of Europe.