THE twisting and turning of the Lib Dem Leadership contenders on their position over a referendum on the EU constitution beggars belief.

Being interviewed in The Daily Telegraph, Chris Huhme is reported as saying about a Referendum for a UK settlement involving Scottish MP's no longer voting on english affairs: "We should convene a constitutional convention of not just the political class but civic society, and come up with proposals that could be put to a referendum. So I agree a referendum is the end process by which we approve new constitutional arrangements."

This shows the utter hypocrisy of the same Lib Dems failing to support a referendum on the new EU constitution, tarted up as a Treaty, which further reduces the powers and influence of all our MPs, English, Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish - a pledge Lib Dems and Labour made in their manifesto's at the last General Election which they now intend to betray.

Cllr STEVE RADFORD

President of The Liberal Party Sutton Street