The thing about the Nice Treaty isn't that it enlarges the EU - why not let the eastern Europeans in? They're brilliant techies and farmers, and we can do with their work - but that it makes for a two-tier Europe.

With the changes of voting rights, the small countries will no longer be able to veto anything the big bullies want to sweep through. And the small countries will have no automatic right to their own ministers on the Council of Ministers any more.

When we joined the EEC we were told that the great thing about it was that it was always going to be an association of equals. Suddenly we find that we're being shoved into the position of a little squeaky state on the periphery of a big powerful Europe ruled by the German reich. No thanks!