Britain's Commonwealth conflict

The Home Page of the Commonwealth Secretariat has as one of its top news stories a report on EU trade pressure on Pacific States, read it from here. The conflict for Britain is here made obvious. The Trade Commissioner of the subsidy addicted and presently entirely loathsome European Union is British passport holder one Peter Mandelson, close associate of, and past political fixer for, one Tony Blair. Tony Blair at the Brussels summit of EU leaders on 21/22 June of this year, sold out his country, its parliament and the democracy of its people by agreeing to the so-called EU Reform Treaty. Britain's membership of the EU is not compatible with the stated objectives of the Commonwealth, the intention of present Prime Minister Gordon Brown to force through Parliament the enabling legislation to put the so-called EU Reform Treaty into effect will certainly destroy any claim Britain might have to be an "independent sovereign state, ....... responsible for its own policies, consulting and co-operating in the common interests of their peoples and in the promotion of international understanding and world peace." Britain in my view already, but certainly after the ratification of the EU Reform Treaty, will cease to be an independent sovereign state and neither will it be a democracy, although the latter factor might not immediately make it ineligible for continued Commonwealth membership. In the best interests of the British people who are about to have their democracy stolen, in clear breach of a government election commitment given to hold a referendum on such legislation, I call upon people across the Commonwealth to demand that their Governments seek to expel Britain from the Commonwealth. The world has no need for the type of EU now being created, by broken pledges to the peoples of Europe, deceit and the brazen disregard of the stated wills of the peoples of France and the Netherlands in earlier referendums. The emergence of a non-democratic pan-European authoritarian regime should be a matter for fear and concern across the world, it seems to me a matter ideally suited for the Commonwealth's defining principles. I am forwarding a copy of this post to the office of the Commonwealth's Secretariat.