Jun 26 2007
And he didn’t even protect the red lines!
When I was reading through the documents from the European Council for the PM’s statement and to appear on Newsnight yesterday, it became obvious that the defence of the red lines was just so much spin.
Our right to settle our own social security matters is "protected" by a so called "emergency brake" in place of the veto. The brake may prove as useless as the old Emergency brake or Luxembourg Compromise, which we used to be assured remained in place to proect any important national interests but has now fallen through disuse. The brake seems to be intended to slow rather than stop EU social security measures that particular states do not like.
Our right to an independent foreign policy is "defended" by a mere Declaration, the weakest form of noting?? a country’s concern in a new Treaty. The Declaration will prove as useful as an umbrella in a hurricane.
Our right to keep control of our own Criminal Justice system is "guaranteed" by the Opt-in device. This has already been overruled in an ECJ judgement which has said if the EU wishes to make criminal offences in areas where it has competence, it can??do so against the wishes of an individual state. This draft Treaty makes a huge increase in the areas of Union competence to which this judgement would apply, including criminal law!??
??Our ability to make our own laws unaffacted by the Charter of Human Rights is supported by a long and explicit Protocol. Lawyers are divided over whether this will work. Some believe the words of the Treaty will take precedence over the Protocol, and the Protocol will therefore be eroded by Court judgements. We can all agree that a Protocol is not as clear cut and as effective as keeping the veto Tony Blair wishes to surrender.
??It is a fitting but unhappy end to Tony Blair’s tenure as PM, to go out giving great chunks of our rights to self government away, whislt claiming he has protected our position. This is the Constitution by another name which the French and Dutch electors rejedted, and which the British people would reject if we were given the vote we were promised.
John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
Of course we should have the referendum that we were promised. However, isn’t the problem that the EU is basically undemocratic and despite denials there has always been an intention of creating a European super state? I would call it a dictatorship. Anything that attempts to obstruct this relentless movement is in effect disregarded. Is not the inescapable conclusion that the only way to prevent ourselves from living under this dictatorship we must leave the EU whilst we are still able?
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Brown intends to split England into regions and then hand us all on a plate to the EUSSR.
We know John, that Camoron is just as guilty as Brown and Bliar, he may make the right noise, with regards to the electorate, but has no intention of doing anything concrete about it. He is a europhile, all three of the big parties are pro EUSSR.
We witnessed, as predicted, the pantomime played out at the supposed summit over the revived constitution, so obviously stage managed to fool the people into thinking that our politicians were getting the best deal for us. Every treaty signed on our behalf, that gives away any of our sovereignty is an act of treason, the ultimate betrayal of a nation state, and John Major is just as guilty over the signing of the Maastricht treaty.
No political party has ever sought a mandate from the people, we have never been asked if we wanted to join a European superstate, therefore it is imperative that we have a referendum immediately.
As an Englishman, I am aware of my nations history, of how we fought for and won our democratic rights and freedoms, and of how we fought to keep them. Will all of our nations previous sacrifices have been for nothing? Will our elected representatives shameful and cowardly behaviour finally finish the job, where previous tyrants have failed?
The balls in your court!
Reply: David Cameron is a Eurosceptic, and is our best hope of reversing the pro EU tide that has swept across this country thanks to governments out of touch with the people on this issue. I have been on the case for a long time and am not about to give up.
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Reply: David Cameron is a Eurosceptic, and is our best hope of reversing the pro EU tide that has swept across this country thanks to governments out of touch with the people on this issue. I have been on the case for a long time and am not about to give up.
John:
Gordon Brown has appointed ministers for the region’s sure you are aware of this fact, he is carrying on with the balkanization of England as fast as he can, in the hope that he can complete the EU’s plan before we in England realize what he is up to. It will then be a case of, “well they are here now, we can’t go back”, and excuses will be made in an effort to scare the electorate into accepting them. We have not got much time left.
You say that Cameron is a Eurosceptic, I see no evidence, but then again you know him, I don’t.
What I do know, is that a referendum on leaving the EUSSR, and an English parliament are sure fire vote winner’s in England. The Labour and Liberal parties will villify you, as will much of the media, especially the Brown Bias Corporation, but the electorate will see you as honest, forthright and prepared to be the voice of the people, and we are desperately in need of someone to speak up for us.
Stop pandering to the media, Polly Toynbee type’s and her ilk, they Have absolutely no clue about what’s happening on the street’s, and even less of an idea on how to tackle the problem’s that people like myself have to live with every day.
The only way that the union between England and Scotland can survive, is the EU’s and Browns way which means no England, just 9 regions fighting as separate entities in an effort to get a little of our tax back from our master’s in Brussels, the damage to the union is irreparable and eEvoEL will not work, only an English parliament will, and will also have the added bonus of scuppering the European agenda.
So Cut the sentimental unionist crap and go for Brown’s throat!!
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