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		Listen to the people! Helmer tells Spanish PM Thursday 29th November 2007 Yesterday in the European Parliament in Brussels an East Midlands MEP told Spanish Socialist Prime Minister José Zapatero to "Listen to the People" on the future of Europe. In a full-scale debate on the future of the EU, most speakers praised the Lisbon Treaty, also known as the ‘Renamed Constitution’ East Midlands Conservative MEP Roger Helmer reminded the session, and the Spanish Prime Minister, that this was the very Constitution decisively rejected by the French and Dutch voters in 2005. He asked how the Spanish Prime Minister could speak of "A Europe based on Democracy" when the European Institutions were determined to railroad through the Constitution in the teeth of public opposition, and he recalled polls showing that across the EU around 70% of voters wanted a referendum, and in Britain up to 80% would vote NO. Speaking after the debate, Helmer said: "It is quite extraordinary -- and disgraceful -- that the EU leadership can press ahead with the Constitution despite its decisive rejection in two of the EU's founding member-states. This is cynicism and deceit on an heroic scale"