YOU READ IT HERE FIRST

This is not usually the sort of blog that likes to gloat, but on Monday 15th June I posted  an atricle, 'Lisbon First', in which I made the comment that the reason Lord Peter Mandelson was doing his utmost to save Gordon Brown's political skin had nothing to do with trying to save Brown or the Labour Party, but more to do with saving the Lisbon Treaty.  I even sent a version of the posting to the Daily Telegraph letters page - it was not published.

Then, in the Sunday Telegraph (21st June  2009) up pops Conservative MEP Dan Hannan more or less saying the same thing in an article.  Although Dan Hannan's article is much better written than any posting you will find on this blog, you still read it here first.