What is more, the Labour Party, as a whole, are ideologically in favour of the European project and ever closer union between EU member states. They are willing backers of the increasing burden of unaccountable regulation that arrives daily from Brussels and now enthusiastically support ‘the destruction of a thousand years of history’ as their former leader Hugh Gaitskell once pertinently observed. They do little to disguise their views on the issue.

Meanwhile, millions of conservatives will feel deeply betrayed by the Conservative Party; an organisation in which they had placed their trust and support, often over decades, through the ballot box and paid membership. Cameron’s climb down on his formerly ‘cast iron’ guarantee of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has signalled that the party no longer represents their interests.

Even after all that has happened many millions of people will continue to consider the Conservative Party to be ‘eurosceptic’ – a phrase that supposedly betokens a stance of disapproval and opposition to the European Union and all its works. In reality however, ‘euroscepticism’ has revealed itself to be nothing more than a facade for Conservative politicians both past and present to make vaguely anti-EU statements in opposition, only for them to betray their voters and capitulate to the perpetual slow motion coup d’état of ever closer union once safely in Government.

Tomorrow, David Cameron will announce his party’s new stance on the European Union. Do not expect much. Despite knowing for months that the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty would be likely, they had not prepared for such an eventuality. Such planning does not exactly bode well for their performance in Government.

In his statement tomorrow, much will be made by Cameron of Labour’s deceit in reneging on their promise of a referendum. Much will be made of how the Treaty will have been implemented into EU and our law by the time of any UK General Election in which the Conservatives could obtain office. Little however will be made of what the Conservatives might do about this. It will all be rather vague. Pointers will be made to the repatriation of powers, though without specifics or indeed how this will be achieved.

Cameron is therefore set for an historic moment. As Gerald Warner in the Daily Telegraph noted, he will be the first British leader to have ratted on his commitments before even taking office. Warner also remarked that:

There is always some shambling excuse, some pseudo-sophisticated ‘reason’ for submitting to humiliation: we cannot have a referendum on a ratified treaty… It would lead to our ejection from the European Union… We mustn’t let Labour back in… The illusion of inevitability – a fundamental Marxist tenet – has successfully been foisted upon British voters by the Frankfurt School Marxists who control the EU.

Despite Team Cameron’s best efforts to sideline the major issues surrounding our membership of the European Union, they have come back to bite him in the backside – as we knew they would.

Despite a valiant rejection of the Lisbon Treaty by the Irish last year in the face of overwhelming opposition from their entire political class, the media and big business, the nation that once sought independence from British rule has been bullied into accepting rule from distant Brussels.

Only Poland and the Czech Republic have yet to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, and it will likely not be long before they do. As the Czech President Vaclav Klaus sadly noted to waiting journalists:

The Irish had the last chance to say something about Lisbon… because after today’s Irish referendum there will never be another referendum in Europe.

And slowly but surely, as day turns to night, the EU’s slow motion coup d’état takes effect. Our sovereignty has been strangled, our independence dissolved. Squandered are centuries of hard won liberties, rights and freedoms – so often without our knowledge or even a care. It is, as Hugh Gaitskell so accurately predicted, to be the end of a thousand years of history.

Yet, there is hope. We, as a nation, are still capable of saving ourselves from the jaws of defeat as we have so many times before. Perhaps it will be that resilience of character and spirit that sees us through again – but only if we will it to be so. For there will be no-one else behind us to catch us should we falter or fall; no foreign intervention to rescue us from our fate.

That decision is up to us now. Either we wake from our delusions of a benevolent European Union, realise that our future as a truly democratic nation lies in grave danger, and resolve to act – or we slowly subside into bureaucracy, and foreign rule by an unelected state, a fate for which we will only have ourselves to blame.

Vice President of the EU Commission, Margot Wallström has given the game away and admitted the real reason why the elite feel it is perfectly acceptable to ignore the Irish Referendum result on the Lisbon Treaty.

Speaking in a debate on the Lisbon Treaty in which anti-treaty MEPs held a protest, Ms Wallström told the EU Parliament:

Don’t forget the European leaders have invested a lot of political capital into this whole procedure.

So, there you have it. The European political elite can safely ignore Irish public opinion because they have put a lot of effort into securing their Constitution. That must make it alright then.

Even before the final result was announced, numerous European politicians including José Manuel Barroso had made plain that the Lisbon Treaty was not dead and that ratification in all member states must continue.

Thus the Irish will discover in time that within the European Union there is no such thing as real choice. Either you subjugate yourself to the will of the Brussels bureaucracy or leave – and since all political parties in Ireland are in favour of remaining within the Union, in much the same way they were all in favour of the EU Constitution, then it is almost guaranteed that the Lisbon Treaty will be forced upon the Irish people eventually.

Some people still talk of creating a looser European Union of independent trading nations. They fail to realise that if the EU and its politicians are prepared to ignore the will of the French, Dutch and Irish voters in very specific referendums, then it is entirely unlikely they will suddenly feel the need to allow members to simply trade freely without any political baggage.

The EU is irreversibly set on the course of ever closer political union. Its elites will not listen to the people, whom they secretly despite for democratically voicing their doubts, and will plough on regardless – even in the face of popular adversity. How does anyone continue to believe that is democratic or favourable?

Since the Irish Government is not required to hold a referendum on an enlargement treaty, the remaining Lisbon protocols could easily be slipped past the Irish electorate when Croatia joins the European Union in 2009 or 2010.

This really is as much as to be expected. When faced with the thorny issue of ‘Europe’ even the usual pretence of democracy disappears out the window as national governments and ministers fall over one another to please their European masters and deny their own electorates a say on their future.

Equally unsurprisingly were yesterday’s events and the way in which this country’s political class and media had everyone looking the other way again when it could have mattered.

Last night in the House of Lords a coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrat Lords defeated a Conservative bid to force a Referendum by 280 to 218 votes, but most people were too busy focusing on the House of Commons vote on the Government’s amendments to its forty two day detention policy.

So enveloped were the political commentariat with the issues surrounding detention without charge that they missed the last ditch attempt to secure a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (aka. the EU Constitution) that all major political parties solemnly promised at the last election – or rather, is more likely the case, they conveniently chose to ignore it.

What a coincidence that the vote on detention policy fell on exactly the same day as the Lords’ referendum vote – or perhaps it wasn’t a coincidence at all…

Frankly though, the issue of detention is rather minor when compared with the huge issue of whether we remain an independent democratic nation state or continue to cede our powers and liberties to the undemocratic bureaucracy in Brussels.

I find that those who rather noisily but uselessly opposed the Government’s plans on forty two day detention on the grounds that it reduced our civil liberties (which it does) had very little, if anything, to say on the fact that the Lisbon Treaty will massively reduce our civil liberties in the sense that our own elected Parliament will be made even more irrelevant.

Still, at the end of the day the politicians maintain their privileges and the media have their supposed controversy and headlines – and that’s all that matters to them. To hell with the rest of us.

While supporters of both the YES and NO camps would celebrate a victory for their respective side, the final reckoning is predestined – the Lisbon Treaty will become law in the twenty seven EU member states and there is nothing we or the Irish people can do to prevent it.

As we all well know, if the result tomorrow in Ireland is not the one that the European Union and its supporters want then they will simply ask the Irish people again, and again and again until they do receive the desired response. However, this is of course assuming that the EU would willingly tolerate the formality of another public referendum, which it may not.

A more likely scenario would seem to be that Irish and EU leaders will simply collude behind the backs of the Irish electorate at the next European Council and ratify the Lisbon Treaty (most of which has already been stealthily implemented) despite a NO vote.

This may well involve the Irish Government claiming that a few token concessions from the EU that will be offered up during ‘negotiation’ this time around (naturally only to be done away with in the next EU Treaty the Irish will sign) is enough to make another democratic consultation of the people unnecessary.

Either that, or all EU member states will agree to continue with the process of ratification without Ireland who would be allowed to join at a later stage if they so wish – which of course they will.

Therefore, the result of the Irish decision tomorrow is entirely irrelevant to the European Union. Its continuous drive towards ever closer union will rumble on undeterred and more and more of our powers, rights and freedoms will be willingly signed over to unelected Commissioners and Bureaucrats in Brussels by our own selfish, pampered and increasingly irrelevant representatives in Parliaments across the European continent.

Within a week our House of Lords will vote on whether there should be a Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Britain. It is highly likely that the Lords and thus Parliament will agree with the Government and decide that there is no need for the people to be consulted. In so doing they will consign to the past this country’s long and celebrated history of being an independent, democratic and free nation. How did it come to this?

Despite the original EU Constitution being rejected by the people in France and in the Netherlands back in 2005, the document has returned disguised as a series of amendments which the governments of the EU hope they can slip past their electorates as another supposedly harmless Treaty.

Yet, so fearful are the political classes of their people saying ‘no’ to the Constitution-in-disguise that they have actively colluded to deny referendums to the people this time around on an almost unprecedented scale. Only the Irish will have a chance to vote on the document due to clauses within their own constitution.

With just over a fortnight until polling day the pro-EU, pro-Lisbon Treaty camp seems confident of gaining a positive result from the referendum. In part this is because Irish big businesses, the media and all the major Irish political parties are uniformly in favour of the EU and a ‘yes’ vote.

However, those on the ground are suggesting that there may well be a repeat of the Irish Referendum on the Nice Treaty, where despite a ‘no’ vote being continually behind in the media’s opinion polls, on the day saw Ireland vote against the Treaty. Yet, as with Nice, even if Irish sense again prevails and the Lisbon Treaty is rejected then there is no guarantee that the Constitutional Lisbon Treaty will be put to rest.

For the leaders of Europe, bureaucrats and supporters of ever closer union, public opinion is seen not as a reason to change direction but as an irritating obstacle to be overcome. And they will come back again, and again, and again until they find the result they want – but if the Irish vote for freedom, independence and democracy in June, and say ‘no, not in our name’ then it will at least throw a small spanner in the EU works.

Whatever happened to the heroes? And I am of course not referring to Leon Trotsky, Lenny, The Great Elmyra or Sancho Panza. What of all those supposed one hundred plus Labour MPs who it was originally claimed would rebel and vote for a referendum?

In reality they probably never existed. When it came to the crunch, the vote and the heavy hand of the party whip, they were found severely wanting. Even so, I suspect that in their heart of hearts a few Labour MPs know that voting down a Referendum was both wrong and completely dishonest. Perhaps they may well live to regret their decision – or not.

Still, at the end of the day who cares, right? The British public are not intelligent enough to understand such a complex Treaty and set of documents even if they tried – or so was insinuated by many Government Ministers throughout Parliamentary discussion in the Commons today. And really, why would the political class care? Their MPs gold plated pensions, perks and salaries will be there tomorrow and long after this EU Constitution has disappeared from the political horizon.