How Euro-federalists plan to get around a British 'No' vote

The voters? Pah! What do they know?

Take two minutes to look at this extraordinary document. The senior Lib Dem MEP, Andrew Duff, wants to tear up, not only the EU’s own rules, but all the norms of international law, by allowing treaties to come into effect before all the signatories have ratified them. Instead of unanimous approval, as set out in the Treaty of Rome, future EU accords would come into effect once four fifths of member states had deposited their instrument of ratification in the vaults of the Italian government.

To his credit, Duffy is quite overt about his motives: he is worried that the British electorate would vote against any future EU treaty.