I See No Tory U-Turn

Everyone seems to be queuing up today to accuse David Cameron of a "u-turn" over the European Treaty. They say that the Tories promised a referendum on the Treaty if and when they got to power.

Cameron has taken flack from fellow Tories, Labour (who knows how they can criticise the Tories for this when they made an even clearer U-turn on the same matter!), newspapers and blogs galore.

But have they performed an u-turn? Is this a broken promise? Here's the official Tory policy on a treat referendum:

If the Lisbon Treaty is not yet in force at the time of the next general election, and a Conservative Government is elected, we would put the Treaty to a referendum of the British people, recommending a 'no' vote. If the British people rejected the Treaty, we would withdraw Britain's ratification of it.

With the Czech President singing the treaty yesterday all EU countries have now ratified the treaty and it will probably come into force before the end of the year. So by the time the Tories will (probably) get into power next year, the treaty will be in force. 

So where's the broken promise?