William Hague's Worthless Words

The Conservative Shadow Foreign Affairs Secretary of State has just promised, at the Conservative Party Conference, to amend the European Communities Act of 1972, to prohibit further extensions of EU competence beyond those given in the Lisbon Treaty upon gaining power after a General Election. This is a gigantic and totally meaningless confidence trick being played against the British electorate. The Lisbon Treaty gives the EU legal status in its own right and furthermore gives that body, the EU itself, the powers to extend its own areas of competence as the EU alone considers as necessary within its own procedures. There is no need for the EU to ever again seek parliamentary consent for the further extension of its own activities. That is the very essence of the deep danger to democracy contained in the Lisbon Treaty and also WHY the traitors now leading Britain's Conservative Party must be made by their party conference to promise a referendum on Lisbon whenever the party comes to power, disregarding the then status of ratification by other countries. A legal challenge based upon the EU's own interference in the second Irish referendum procedures alone, made at conference this week, should prove enough of a marker to warn the EU against yet further implementation of Lisbon's provisions, which has also been illegally underway for months. William Hague has sold out his country, he may as well have stood on the stage in Manchester, pulled down the Union Flag and hauled up the hated circle of yellow stars on blue to the music of "Ode to Joy".