BBC Europe editor reveals his true colours..

On a 'No' vote in Ireland...

There would be no attempt to renegotiate a second reform treaty. No further tinkering with the text, no treaty of Prague or Stockholm to be signed next year.

What there would be is a dissection of the corpse. Some major parts of both Lisbon and the constitution would be sadly discarded.

Sadly discarded, eh?
And also the admission that there are chunks of the Constitution in the Lisbon Treaty, as if we already didn't know...