The prime minister has already embarked on a cross-European tour to drum up support for restructuring the EU – including limits on benefits for new migrants and a greater role for national parliaments – which he has promised to deliver before putting Britain's membership to a vote.
That promise was easy to keep because until 2005 the PDS failed to enter parliaments in any of the old western states.
In a report, published in 2012, the European Network on Debt and Development warned: "Do not implement new results-based approaches unless they respond to the demands of recipient country governments in consultation with civil society and parliaments, and have been designed to meet aid effectiveness principles.
His appointment threatens to derail efforts by UN envoy Bernardino Leon to relaunch a political dialogue in Libya, which has rival governments and parliaments and is flush with armed militias.
If, that is, anyone still wants a whiff of the gunpowder and sawdust in the rheumaticky old mother of parliaments.
Even inside the two parliaments, the contrasting attitude of politicians was stark.
Two major controversial votes in two parliaments and two street demonstrations in two capital cities, the only difference being that it's the British who now appear more radical and militant than their Irish counterparts.
Its advocates admit that deeper integration requires more supranational democracy, since national parliaments will necessarily be weakened.
The past few days have been a stunning reversal of expectations, from talk of hung parliaments and Miliband in charge to the resurgence of the right.
And this in the land once called the Mother of Parliaments.
While the current draft hints at some common ground with the Tories over making it harder for EU migrants to access benefits, it also treats it as an issue to be addressed by national parliaments, rather than a problem that requires a wholesale revision of the freedom of movement principle.
