Gisela Stuart Labour MP warns Fabians

“If the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified and implemented, and devolution to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland continues apace, in fifteen to twenty years time, this House of Commons will have only two functions - one will be to raise taxes, and the other will be to authorise war.”

She also warned that “If the EU Health Directive as it stands goes through in ten years time we won’t be able to run the NHS.” She criticised the fact that “things happen by stealth” so often in the European Union, saying: “My fundamental misgiving of the Lisbon Treaty is that in terms of checks and balances, it has completed the tool box, with the exception of defence and taxation, so that if the EU wishes to do something in any member state, it can use one tool or another, whether it’s legislation, or whether it’s court cases, you name it - it can now do it. Because it is either shared competence, or it is by co-decision, it can always do it now.” She said: “We are making fewer and fewer decisions that matter… I can’t tell my constituents where the buck stops.”

So said Labour MP Gisela Stuart yesterday, for a fuller report and comments by the head of the EU Scrutiny Committee go here.