Europe's hopeless last stand in defence of the single currency | Simon Jenkins

Bashing Britain may make Eurocrats feel good, but Cameron was right to stand aloof from a treaty that will surely fail

Nick Clegg's finger cannot have hovered long over his suicide belt at the weekend. He could have blasted the coalition to smithereens and forced a general election. But that would have blown David Cameron back to power and left the Liberal Democrats a pool of blood on the pavement. Had Cameron signed another European treaty, he would have been legally bound to a referendum...