The other inevitable thing was the decision of David Cameron to back down from a referendum.
The third inevitable thing was the tin-helmet brigade shrieking - and backed by their shrill-voiced paper, The Daily Mail - that Cameron has betrayed Britain.
How exactly? C'mon how? He isn't Prime Minister and he never said that there would be a referendum if the Treaty was ratified before the next election, only if it wasn't. Try learning to read Tin-Hatters.
The Treaty no longer exists - it is now law. Now I presume Cameron is acting honourably (for a politican, natch) and has consulted constitutional lawyers about the feasibility of the proposed checks and balances - and judging from the protocol-ignoring reaction of the French there seems to be some truth to this - so good for him for trying to make a bad decision better.
Finally, how must Labour laughing at all this.
Let me remind you again, Cameron didn't "betray" the nation by going back on a referendum...
He did
and
so did he
Oh him as well
The Conservatives were the only ones to keep honouring their manifesto commitment whilst the other two parties sold us down the swanny.