What is the purpose of this?
The European parliament's briefling booklet on the constitution publishes letters to Michael Martin, the speaker of the house of commons, and to Lord Falconer, the Lord Chancellor, inviting them to the joint parliamentary conference. Well, they didn't come.
At the risk of attracting ridicule, that they are not treated seriously by the mother of parliaments, are they trying to show up the arrogance of Britain's senior parliamentary figures?

