A quote from Maria José Figueiredo at the Gates of Vienna blog, 18 December 2007
 
José Sócrates, the Portuguese prime minister, is still trying to decide in what way is his government going to ratify [the European Reform Treaty]. During the last couple of years, he has declared repeatedly that he would call for a referendum on the treaty, [...] Alan Lamassoure, Sarkozy’s adviser for European matters has said that, were Sócrates to call a referendum, that would be a ‘betrayal’ (sic) on his part; for, on that scenario, Gordon Brown would hardly be able not to do the same, other countries would follow, and some country or other is bound to say no to the treaty.