Batshit changes mind...?

Last Friday: Mr Miliband said the Irish result should be respected but there should also be a "British view" on the treaty. "I think it is right that we follow the view that each country must see the ratification process to a conclusion," he said, "I believe it is right that we continue with our process and take up the Irish offer of further discussions about the next steps forward."

Yesterday:The fate of the Lisbon Treaty is hanging by a thread and the Irish prime minister should decide whether to read it the last rites, David Miliband said yesterday. Although a 'no' vote at the referendum stopped the legislation in its tracks, prime minister Brian Cowen must move - if he chooses - to kill it off, the foreign secretary added. Mr Miliband, who called the treaty Europe's 'old agenda', stressed leaders might have to accept all was lost and continue under old rules.