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A referendum is to be held in the Midlands over the controversial EU Constitution - but only if you live in Redditch.
It is not part of some dramatic government U-turn, but a campaign from the pressure group "I Want A Referendum" (IWAR).
At least nobody can accuse them of not saying what they want.
On Monday 11 February 2008, ballot papers will go out to voters in 10 parliamentary constituencies - including Redditch in Worcestershire - which has been selected because it is the constituency of the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith.
IWAR will be campaigning for a referendum on the EU Constitution - the wording here is important because the government say what Gordon Brown signed up to in Lisbon in December 2007 was the EU Reform Treaty.
"We're giving the people of Redditch a chance to have the vote that the Government is denying them"
Biggest vote
The Treaty is something quite different, the government argues.
But, opponents across the political spectrum, maintain that the Reform Treaty is the same as the Constitution in all but name.
"We want to give people the vote the Government is denying them," says the mission statement on the IWAR website.
"Over half a million people will participate in the polls in the first phase alone, which will be the biggest vote on the European Union since the last national referendum in 1975," it continues.
So far, so good - the IWAR campaigners have been parading their giant inflatable ballot box the length and breadth of the land, including recently, in Birmingham's Chamberlain Square, to drum up support.
Issue of trust
The voting form will ask two questions: (a) Should there be a national referendum on the EU Constitution (now known as the Lisbon Treaty)? (b) Should the UK adopt the Treaty?
"We're giving the people of Redditch a chance to have the vote that the government is denying them," said IWAR chairman Derek Scott, a former economics advisor to Tony Blair.
"We want to remind MPs of their commitments - every political party promised a referendum at the last election, and MPs must be held to that." he added.
Sally McGettigan is a local vet, based in Redditch, and is a supporter of the campaign.
"This is an issue of trust. At the last election, MPs from all parties, including Jacqui Smith, vowed to back a referendum on the EU Constitution. We simply want her to keep her promise."
No referendum
A number of other polls have been conducted in various parishes across the country on the issue after a campaign by the UK Independence Party, but nothing on this scale has been attempted before.
Whatever the results in Redditch, the government has already said there will be no referendum on the issue.
So what's the point?
Is Europe really the talk of the pubs in Redditch or not?
The turnout figures will be interesting.
Will the Redditch vote be the beginning of a tidal wave of public activism against the Treaty of Lisbon or will it disappear in a puddle of indifference?
Our reporter Joan Cummins has been finding out.
Also in the programme ...
You are nobody in politics these days if you do not have your own blog or at least some sort of internet presence.
The blogs are often home to scandal and rumour and so are compulsive reading!
Often they can also be the source of scoops as insiders post what they know directly onto the world wide web.
In the Midlands, we are blessed with a number of dedicated bloggers - among them, The Stirrer - which is the brainchild of former Politics Show presenter, Adrian Goldberg.
A recent Stirrer exclusive revealed that as many as 500 Birmingham council workers had made Freedom of Information requests to find out exactly how their new pay scales had been worked out among several others related to the current pay dispute.
PoliticalHackUK is another must-read site for anybody interested in the Midlands political scene.
Stirrer
Written by a self-confessed Labour party insider, its best genuine scoop was the revelation that Clare Short was leaving the Labour Party.
It also specialises in highly partisan and occasionally humorous attacks on political opponents - Liberal Democrat MP, John Hemming, and Birmingham City Council leader, Mike Whitby, are often in the firing line.
Mr Hemming himself also keeps a regular blog.
This week's highlight is a picture of the inside of the Birmingham City Council chamber minus any Labour councillors - who had refused to attend Tuesday night's meeting due to that day's strike by council workers.
He also uses it to post on a variety of topics from local election results to his long-running and highly respected campaign over family law.
Trouble
Possibly the star of the blogosphere locally is the Labour MP for West Bromwich East Tom Watson who confesses that his blog has "won him no votes and has got him into trouble."
Mr Watson famously got into hot water when filming a spoof of David Cameron's WebCameron site starring friend and fellow Labour MP Sion Simon and posting the results of YouTube.
But his blog is rated as one of the best around with a look not just at the local scene but the national and even international as well.
Even 10 Downing Street are at it.
The petitions section has proved to be one of the most popular on any Government site and one with a track record for influencing policy.
Who can forget the petition raised by Peter Roberts of Telford against road pricing, which attracted a staggering two million signatures and prompted a response to each signatory from the, then, PM Tony Blair.
BBC Midlands Science Correspondent David Gregory has been taking a look around the net at the blogs and the message boards and looking at their impact on democracy.
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The Politics Show for the West Midlands, with Jon Sopel and Sarah Falkland on Sunday 10 February at 12:00 GMT on BBC One.
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