MPs must now confront their individual treachery!

The reasons why our Members of Parliament have willfully abandoned their responsibilities became increasingly abundantly clear as last week progressed. MONEY and fear for their financial futures. The consequence has been that the generally agreed figure for the percentage of legislation now coming from the EU and non-amendable by Parliament is 75%. This should be astounding as it is clear that Parliament has sold itself out! In Germany that figure is sometimes quoted as 85% and polls this week show opposition to the Lisbon Treaty in that country now running in the 70 to 75 percentage range, making a rejection in their Constitutional Court ever more likely. Such a failure for the EU Lisbon Treaty in either Germany, the Czech Republic or in another Irish Referendum defeat MUST not be allowed to halt a full examination of the individual actions of our own Parliamentarians over Lisbon, upon which the public were promised a referendum by all three major parties. Neither should such a self-examination prevent a broader consideration of that 75% EU legislation number, which when combined with the diminution of legislative authority following Scottish and Welsh devolution essentially left ordinary MP with little to do. Conservative MPs cannot be exempt from these self-examinations, for their membership voted in a new leader, with some very strange electoral procedures, on a promise to remove the party's MEP from the extreme federalist EPP-ED group with which they were affiliated and did NOTHING to ensure such a pledge was then immediately fulfilled as promised. Tories have been living the lie on Lisbon too, note the hypocrisy in their present stance! So when this weekend you happen to come across an MP or summon them to answer questions about their disgusting greed please do not overlook the greater crime that in their mindless pursuit of filthy lucre they sold out your Parliament, your democracy and your country purely for personal gain and in direct contradiction of their own individually sworn duties. Spit in their faces because they allowed themselves to become mindless lobby fodder under the control of thugs and crooks- not just for the fact that they are now seen as greedy swine as this blog has been claiming and illustrating year after year!