Plenipotentiary Powers - Number 2 - The Peril

To summarise my first posting on this topic, last Tuesday, linked here, perogative powers seem to have become frequently used instruments enabling the executive arm of government to bypass parliament. This was explained in great detail by Tony Benn and William Hague to a Commons Committee in April 2003, which for convenience, I link again from here. The danger I envisage from this completely confusing legislative situation is that foreigners could argue that under UK law Treaties, such as the EU Reform Treaty to be signed in Lisbon in less than two weeks time, are fully entered into by the United Kingdom once signed by plenipotentiaries properly documented by HM the Queen. If Parliament or the people subsequently rejected the Lisbon Treaty what could the UK then do if our EU partners argued such a case and decided that such a rejection must be handled as a notice of withdrawal under the onerous condiotions of the Lisbon Treaty itself as contained in Article 35 of the Treaty on the European Union. Britain would effectively be bankrupted and stripped of the few remaining material assets the nation still possesses after over thirty-five years of ever-growing and ever more corrupt misrule from Brussels and Westminster. I will be preparing some e-mails for various leading political figures trying to obtain answers to these pressing questions and will post them on this blog together with the replies received if so authorised by their senders.