Treasures from the threads - Number Thirteen.

In reply to an astounding posting on a blog titled "Federal Inion" by Richard Laming, linked here, comes this well stated response: Dundonald said...

Nice try, but your notion that the Parliamentary process is being sidelined by Stuart Wheeler is absurd. Those Parliamentarians of which you speak derive their authority from ELECTIONS. The results of those elections are predicated on what the various parties state in their MANIFESTOS. The vast bulk of those elected members stood for Parliament on a manifesto commitment to hold a referendum on the EU constitution. The only people who pretend that the Lisbon Treaty is significantly different from the EU Constitution (the document that was put to a vote, and rejected by the French and Dutch) are our own egregious government, and their apologists such as you. They have no democratic mandate whatsoever to exclude the people from the ratification process. But, we know that EU-fanatics like you are not remotely interested in democracy. It is you, and people like you, who are abusing our constitution by supporting the transfer of power from our elected representatives, to an unelected polyglot bureaucracy that meets in secret in a foreign capital. Stuart Wheeler is standing up for the right to govern ourselves. He is as far removed from the venal manipulation and conspiratorial manoeuvrings of the EU’s political elite, who simply won’t take ‘no’ for an answer. That’s why they don’t like referenda; when they don’t like the answers they get, they stop asking the question. Your feigned protestations about constitutional probity fool nobody.