A number of MPs have renewed calls for a referendum on the EU constitution, reports the BBC. This is, of course, because of their deep personal commitment to direct democracy. The fact that a lot of the public happen to agree with their personal views on the constitution is entirely irrelevant.
Their deep personal commitment to direct democracy has outweighed the fact that a referendum on the EU treaty would be conducted in the pages of a ragingly paranoid press, and in an atmosphere where rational debate and consideration appears to be absolutely impossible.
It should also be noted that all those in favour of a referendum on the treaty are either Euro-sceptics or whatever you call people who want to declare war on Germany. But this is obviously just one of those remarkable coincidences. The only thing that brings them together is their deep personal commitment to direct democracy.