The EU after Ireland’s NO

I have been silent on the Irish No, for which this blog campaigned so hard, as the consequences were certain to be confusing for a considerable period of time. President Sarkozy’s address yesterday to the European Parliament at the beginning of the period of the French six monthly rotating Presidency of the EU now seems a fitting moment to record some early impressions. The reaction of the majority of the leaders of the main member states of the EU has been predictably disgusting. What better proof of all the worst accusations that this blog and its forerunner have hurled at the EU down the years can there possibly have ever been? The behaviour of the British governing party, its two chambers of Parliament and the nation’s present monarch have been particularly grotesque. Lodging in Rome the ratification papers effecting the mandate of the 28-30th June 2007 meeting of the Council is or will be an affront to every principle of British constitutional democracy. Happily at the beginning of next year under the Czech Presidency a new era will begin for the nations of Europe. I suggest a priority for that Presidency will be a beginning of a phase shedding the supra-nationalist elements of the NICE Treaty (which federalists find so offensive in a national context) and pursuing an agreement on the properly accountable operation of a body responsible solely for the running of a free trade area and such other areas as may be agreed from time to time by simultaneous referendum of the entire population as safeguarded by protections available to minorities in the direct democracy of the cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. The non-democratic close-shave of the Lisbon Treaty and nightmare consequences of a continuing acqui communitaire must never be allowed to be repeated.

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At long last - a Dutch protest on Lisbon

The following is from Radio Netherlands, linked here: No becomes Yes Dutch ratifying Treaty of Lisbon By political editor John Tyle Three years ago the people of the Netherlands rejected the European constitution. This week, the Dutch parliament is ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon. This new treaty scrapped the symbols of a federal state that were in the constitution. Otherwise, most of the new treaty is the same as the constitution. So what made the Dutch change their mind? Fooled According to Harry van Bommel, an MP for the Socialist Party, the Dutch Public should again have had a say in a referendum: "I feel fooled. The Dutch said no, convincingly. We see now a Lisbon Treaty which is for 95 percent the same as the constitutional treaty. And now all of a sudden our government says no, this is a completely different treaty. My story's a different story."He goes on: "I think that it has so many similarities with the constitutional treaty that we should simply compare it with that treaty and allow our people to have a vote."

Another plea from an MEP for an Irish NO

Tobias Pflüger MEP, details from here, made an interesting speech in Dublin recently. It may be read from this link. He concluded as follows: Additionally, the Reform Treaty will change the voting counts in the most important EU body, the Council of the Heads of State and Government. When the treaty is ratified, Germany will nearly double its share of vote in the Council from 8,4% to 16,73% (the other winners will be France, Great Britain and Italy) while all other states will significantly loose influence. CONCLUSION Finally, the Treaty unmistakably states, that European law takes priority over national law. Declaration 17 says that "the Treaties and the law adopted by the Union on the basis of the Treaties have primacy over the law of Member States." So, whether they like it nor not, when ratified, all Member States are obliged to adhere to the militaristic program laid out by the Treaty of Lisbon. Therefore, I cannot overemphasize how important the referendum on the 12th of June is. Not only for Ireland and the future of its neutrality. But also for the whole continent and the prospects for a peaceful and democratic European Union. So, I hope that the population of Ireland will reject this treaty!

From other blogs

Catholic Bishops attempt to sway referendum result, link here a quote: The Catholic bishops appear to have called for a Yes vote - nothing explicit of course, but we’re not complete eejits, Your Lordships Good comment from 2007 - link here, a taste: The Reform Treaty, in its essence, is all about the centralization of political power by an unelected ruling clique in Brussels that wants to pursue its superpower ambitions free from the constraints of democracy. The new treaty is nearly identical to the proposed European Constitution that voters rejected in 2005.

Pity the brainwashed children of France! Are yours?

AFP reports today (belatedly) on EU Commission President Barroso's veiled threats to the Irish, read here. The item is written with an eye to the French EU Presidency due for the second half of this year - the six month period immediately before the Lisbon Treaty comes into force if ratified by all 27 doomed nation states. Of all the words and all the posts on all my blogs that I have written down the years, nothing can better illustrate the full horror of the dangers ahead than the video I am linking to below. The song, sung in English, by French children was put on a USA video site by a twelve year old child. In order that you can fully imagine the dreadfulness of that fact, I am not providing a direct feed straight to the video from this blog. Please visit the site where it was first posted, then imagine if you can the nature of the brainwashing inflicted by the EU on this young and innocent child's mind by the evil forces now driving the EU towards the destruction of European democracy. Link to the video by Les Jeunes Europeen France Have you watched it? Can you imagine the sheer malice of the organization that has driven the teachers of these children to abuse their minds with what must have been years of indoctrination? Some bloggers in the UK have linked this video and attached anti-French comment. The French parents and their offspring are surely the victims. Children should always be led to learn all aspects of the world and never indoctrinated in such a manner? If it is happening in France, then it will be happening across the EU. Try to make this video available across Ireland with comment stressing the implications of its production and the ages of both the poster of the video and its propaganda fed participants. We seem to have now arrived at a point with the EU, that even I had never fully imagined possible!

Freezing in the Dark

In a few months time, in the midst of the next bleak mid-winter, British families could well be freezing in the dark, all thanks to the promise breaking and deepest treachery of their Government and its manifesto promise breaking back bench MPs and Peers joined by the equally treacherous Liberal/Democrats. Why? Start by reading this report on the growing crisis over Iran's nuclear weapons programme.


Now study this map of the narrow entrance to the Arabian Gulf at Quoin Island through which must pass nearly the entire oil exports of the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Note how it is dominated by Iran and remember that test firing of torpedoes recently occurred.

Now read these provisions of the new EU Lisbon Treaty due to come into force on 1st January next year, without the promised British referendum.

TEU Article 5:

2. Under the principle of conferral, the Union shall act only within the limits of the competences conferred upon it by the Member States in the Treaties to attain the objectives set out therein.

Competences not conferred upon the Union in the Treaties remain with the Member States.

TFEU
TITLE XXI
ENERGY
Article 194
1. In the context of the establishment and functioning of the internal market and with regard for
the need to preserve and improve the environment, Union policy on energy shall aim, in a spirit of solidarity between Member States, to:
(a) ensure the functioning of the energy market;
(b) ensure security of energy supply in the Union;

Now read my post below!

Hound the MP maggots - on holiday again!

While the rest of the nation returns to work our maggots in parliament enjoy yet another vacation. Those not basking on a sun drenched beach on some tropical isle might be found in their second home in their constituencies, which today we read they now might want a set allowance of 23,000 pounds per year to avoid the embarassment of submitting detailed expense statements, liable to be held up for ridicule by the long-suffering tax-payers. Worse is that when they return they will take the final step of totally dis-enfranchising those who voted them to power on a false promise. To see how your own MP voted on the referendum question last time click here. Harry them wherever they can be found if they had voted the wrong way and warn them of the consequences for your vote if they do so again! No matter be it first home, second home, constituency surgery or even John Lewis - Let them see your fully justified anger. If they have the gall to argue Parliament's powers are increased as the EU and Irish authorities are attempting to do, bone up on the facts from Wargle: Dodgy bits of the Lisbon treaty: the "expanded" role of national parliaments

IHT reveals depths of EU's Deceitfulness!

Read this unsurprising but absolutely scandalous report on the real depths and widespread nature of the plot to dupe the Irish voters into voting 'YES' to the Lisbon Treaty. The shame spreads across the entire European Continent across all 27 member states of the EU. UPDATE: As the link to this item has suddenly vanished from the IHT front page. it is worthwhile now recording some of the main points: And with opinion polls showing much of the Irish electorate undecided, the possibility that the Lisbon Treaty may be rejected has sent unfamiliar tremors of fear through the ranks of Europe's top bureaucrats, who rarely have to trouble with voters. That has meant a kind of unacknowledged but collective halt on anything controversial, particularly if it might upset Irish sensibilities............ The view that Brussels has been gripped by a go-slow is shared widely. "We all know this is happening, but we are all denying it - so you won't get me saying anything on the record," one EU diplomat said. But the evidence is all around. In March the European Union's 27 heads of government held one of their least eventful meetings in recent memory. By contrast, their summit meeting next month - which starts June 19, after the Irish vote - has a crowded agenda including climate change, the vexed issue of biofuels, food price rises, planned laws on carbon dioxide emissions from cars and the role of the new European president. Initiatives likely to worry or annoy Irish voters are being played down or delayed............. Not every difficult issue can be avoided, of course. But those that emerge tend to get an Ireland-friendly spin....................

The old Reich clause

"Euro-judges will decide how and when to enforce the Charter of Fundamental Rights, now made legally-binding. Article 52 allows the "limitation" of all liberties in the "general interest" of the Union. This is the old Reich clause. Such justifications for state coercion have been illegal in Europe for 60 years. Now they return, by the back door." Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in today's Telegraph. The entire article is worth reading and may be reached from this link. This piece accurately lays out the real nature of the deep peril in which the nations and its past freedoms now stand. What a glaring contrast to another item in the same edition of that newspaper by an individual called Andrew Porter, brandishing the title 'political editor' and setting out a poltical agenda for the weeks ahead that cannot even find space for mention of the Lisbon Treaty, read the complete tripe from here if you wish to waste your time. What a contrast with the sombre tone of the EU specialist Mr Evans-Pritchard, who rightly concludes his article as follows:

By the time this EMU denouement plays out, Ireland will have voted. Lisbon will probably be law. The euro-elites will have prevailed. But history will not be kind to the venture.

It is one thing to nudge the European Project forward by stealth - the "Monnet Method" of fait accompli. It is another to impose a treaty that has already been rejected by people in a direct vote, as the French and Dutch did by emphatic margins in 2005.

We are witnessing Europe's Prague Spring - as my colleague Daniel Hannan puts it - the moment the EU loses its legitimacy. Yes, the system endures. The tribes acquiesce. But the idealism is draining away.

Can anyone really claim that the Lisbon Treaty is rooted in the democratic assent of the French, Dutch, British, Danes, Swedes, Finns, Poles, and Czechs?

We have the spectacle of Gordon Brown refusing to sign the treaty in public because of the potent danger it poses to his Government.

A British prime minister slinks away to a private room to commit Britain to an arrangement that alienates the powers of Parliament - in perpetuity and perhaps illegally - knowing that his people would vote 'no' by crushing margins if given a chance.

How on earth did we arrive at such a sorry state of affairs?

Irish NO vote rises by 5% against 3% for the YES

The latest poll, report linked here, shows the gap narrowing between the Yes and No sides for the crucial 12th June Irish Referendum on the democracy smashing Lisbon Treaty.

Brown should go on external indebtedness alone.

The following figures for External Debt are from the CIA, linked here: 1 United States $12,877,889,ooo,000 Estimated on 31 December 2007 2 United Kingdom $ 11,502,800,ooo,ooo Estimated on Q4 2007 3 Germany $4,489,000,000,000 Estimated on 30 June 2007 No wonder then that Gordon Brown has to rob, eke out and squeeze every penny he is able from the UK citizens all living in a bankrupt country. No wonder he took a sledge hammer to both the poor and the motorists, those least able to escape from his tyranny. Get rid of him NOW. A few more weeks and the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified without a referendum and withdrawal from the totally corrupt EU (link), which is bleeding Britain dry for zero returns will be impossible ever after. BECAUSE the economic terms for leaving will, post-Lisbon, be set out and imposed by the leeches that have put the country on the death bed where it today expends its dying breath! How can anybody imagine that Britain, with a mere fifth of the USA population and an even smaller fraction of its GNP, can ever hope to regain solvency after the Brown years while paying the billions and billions extra to the EU as agreed by Tony Blair in his bid to be the first secretly appointed President of the corrupt EU which will be finally permanently established in the Lisbon Treaty. I have also today blogged on David Cameron's role on Teetering Tories, linked here and the plot to hide MEP expenses on The Strasbourg Cesspit blog, linked here.

Lords debate EU Reform Treaty Referendum

The link is here, some quotes: Lord Howell of Guildford moved Amendment No. 162: (and commented among other good points): It really is wearying constantly to be told that two and two does not make four and that black is white. In the words of my right honourable friend Kenneth Clarke, with whom I have worked closely in the past, will the Government,

“stop all this nonsense about its being different from the constitution when it is plainly the same in substance”?—[Official Report, Commons, 5/3/08; col. 1785.]

That seems pretty definite.

Having listed all those arguments that are paraded, there is one reason above all why none of these pleas should be accepted: the Government promised a referendum, as did the Liberal Democrats and my own party. We did it in our manifestos in 2005. The parties went even further than the promises in the manifestos. In the Sun, the former Primer Minister, Tony Blair, said,

“we will have a referendum on the constitution in any event—and that is a government promise”.

As for the Liberal Democrats—I was going to say the dear old Lib Dems, but I am not sure those are quite the right words—we are getting used to their vagaries. My colleague William Hague had a few words for the anatomical state of their party in the Commons debates. I shall spare their blushes here; I think that these matters are much too vulgar for your Lordships’ House. However, their new leader, Mr Clegg, said at their party conference:

“Any proposals which involve significant change in the relationship between the Union, the member states and its citizens should be approved in Britain through a referendum”.

What could be plainer than that?

Every independent analysis confirms that the two treaties are virtual replicas. According to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, a very distinguished committee, as I know, 240 of the 250 proposals in the constitutional treaty are reproduced identically in this one. That very distinguished committee—by no means dominated by the Opposition; on the contrary, it is dominated by the Government—said that,

“there is no material difference between the provisions on foreign affairs in the Constitutional Treaty, which the Government made subject to approval in a referendum and those in the Lisbon Treaty on which a referendum is being denied”.

The amendment was eventually withdrawn without a division, here, AND more incredibly without virtually any media coverage of the debate in the days since then!

EU Treaty (Amendment) Lord's discussions

There have been some important amendments tabled, briefly discussed and withdrawn in the UK's House of Lords this week. The unscrupulous behaviour of Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, has ensured that voting on any changes is entirely pointless, matching his perfidy to that of the Governing Labour Party. We can at least have the main conspirators involved in this exercise of treachery clearly identified with their role on the record in Hansard, for as long as such evidence is allowed to remain openly available to the general public once this disgraceful Lisbon Treaty becomes part of Britain's law. The first amendment I wish to highlight on this blog is Number 121 moved on 14th May, contributions linked here, as follows: “Supremacy of United Kingdom Parliament Nothing in this Act or the Treaty of Lisbon shall affect or be construed by any court in the United Kingdom as affecting the supremacy of the United Kingdom Parliament to make or unmake laws or regulations applicable in the United Kingdom.” Here we have a statement of what would have been considered the 'bleeding obvious' by generations of free born Englishmen and women. The fact is that our Sovereignty has now gone, and in the view of some - gone for all time as may be seen from this brief selection of their Lordship's comments: "Lord Lester of Herne Hill........The position is that our sovereign Parliament has agreed, exercising its sovereignty, that so long as we remain members of the European Community/Union where European Community law reigns, in the sense that it applies in a particular area, any inconsistency in legislation or judicial decision or administrative action must give way. It is also clear that no member state can reply on its own constitutional order as an excuse for doing anything inconsistent with the paramount law of the European Community, now the European Union. Perhaps I may say that all that is now in any law school regarded as absolutely straightforward for any law student. Lord Waddington: If Lord Denning is looking down on us he would be very displeased to hear that his utterances were political, because they were nothing of the sort. What the noble Lord is saying is based on his belief that the European Communities Act has already acquired a special status and is quite unlike any other Act of Parliament except, perhaps, the Bill of Rights. I do not accept that. If one takes the view that what one Parliament can do another can undo, and that an Act of Parliament is an Act of Parliament is an Act of Parliament, I am right and the noble Lord is wrong. But let me continue with what I have got to say." Having thus dispensed with the entire concept of the primacy of British Law, there was later this enlightening exchange on the breaking of the Government's promise of a referendum on any Treaty of a remotely Constitutional character such as the one the subject of this debate: "Lord Hannay of Chiswick: I objected to the decision to have a referendum in 2004. I have objected to every single decision to have a referendum. I am afraid that I am not prepared to sit and be told that I have reneged on anything.

Lord Waddington: The noble Lord is entirely missing the point. I am not saying that a person is not entitled to take the view that a referendum is a bad instrument for dealing with circumstances such as that; I am saying that we should all agree that Governments, when they promise referendums, should honour their promises. That is the issue before this Committee. I am rather ashamed by people’s denial that that plain obligation should be carried out."

For me the soundest and most forceful point of the debate on the totally unacceptable powers of the European Court of Justice, which as it now exists is outside of any democratic control or constraint, was this quote : "Lord Neill of Bladen: ...........

9.45 pm

I am sorry that the Bishops’ Benches are empty tonight because I wanted to remind them of a tremendous expression by one of their predecessors, Bishop Benjamin Hoadly, an early 18th-century divine, who held four bishoprics, starting at Bangor and going on to Hereford, Salisbury and finally Winchester. Preaching to the King in 1717, he said:

“Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is he who is truly the lawgiver, to all intents and purposes, and not the person who first spoke or wrote them”.

Summing up for the Government the following was what I considered to be their main point: "Baroness Ashton of Upholland: The Council of Ministers is made up of the member states. It is no good saying that the Council and not the member states makes the law, because the Council is made up of the member states." The Council of Ministers and now the new all powerful European Council with its own President and effectively Foreign Affairs Supremo are of course made up of 27 member states of which Britain is but one, and one moreover with no land connection to the strife prone European Continent and no common heritage of Law nor Governance. IT is alien to us and we will forever be outnumbered, outvoted and stripped of our income, wealth and assets. The perpetrators of this outrage against the citizens of Britain, know full well what they are about as from the immediately following debate it becomes clear that they seem to be concerned, that when the facts become widely known, some national retribution or holding to account might be demanded. They are thus ensuring some protective outside forces will then be on call: The amendment on the European Gendarmerie Force was moved by the two UKIP Peers and was as follows: “Deployment of European Gendarmerie Force: parliamentary approval Notwithstanding any provision of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), nothing in this Act or the Treaty of Lisbon shall be taken as requiring the United Kingdom Government to permit the deployment of the European Gendarmerie Force in the United Kingdom without the consent of the United Kingdom Parliament.” Nothing could be more straightforward nor clearer than this amendment, one would have thought. I have blogged before (read here) on this armed force and warned about the deployment of foreign police forces without British consent in my novel written in the mid-nineteen-nineties, so concern could hardly be considered surprising, but once again the amendment was withdrawn without even any promise from a Government spokesperson to not in future deploy such militiamen without the consent of the Westminster Parliament. This disgraceful Government with its increasingly fascist tendencies must clearly be getting concerned at the the potential long term consequences of their present actions. The exchanges, for the time being, may be read from this link to Hansard. (The intervention by Lord Hannay of Chiswick, will I feel certain, make particularly interesting reading as authoritarianism continues its steady march across the EU after Lisbon).

Irish Referendum Poster

On the other hand it will regulate you, tax you, oppress you, watch you, follow you and goodness only knows what else.

All without you ever again having a vote as to who is in charge, what policies might best be followed or indeed how any of your tax payments might best be spent.

In Britain we are not even getting a vote, ask Nick Clegg and his Lib/Dem Peers why not!

BOOT out Brown before his final betrayal can be completed!

Danger from within!

It is three hundred and twenty years since the nation faced such a threat from its own treacherous rulers as that posed by the proposed referendumless ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. Winston Churchill writing on the events of that pivotal year, concisely summarised its defeat as follows: "Very fearsome and dubious must the prospect have seemed to the nobility, gentry, and clergy who embodied the life and meaning of the England that we still know. They had no army; they had no lawful means of resistance, expression, or debate. They could not appeal to the unenfranchised millions of peasants and townsmen. They saw in mental eye the King in martial panoply advancing upon them with all that royal power in whose sanctity they themselves were the chief believers, with French troops ready to descend at any moment upon their shores to quell rebellion, with the children of the Ironsides hand in hand with Jesuit priests. Never did aristocracy or the Established Church face a sterner test or serve the nation better than in 1688. They never flinched; they never doubted. They faced this hideous, fraudulent, damnable hotch-potch of anti-national designs without a tremor, and they conquered without a blow. Why they conquered and above all, why they conquered bloodlessly, turned upon the action of no more than as many men and women as can be counted upon one's fingers." Where are today's handful of such heroes?

Consolidated EU Treaties post Lisbon/Reform

The Official Journal of the now clearly despotic European Union has now been published and is linked here. The citation is OJ 2008 C115, p. 1. Thanks to the EU Law Blog for the link. (As the EU clearly has no intent of following the Law one really must query the purpose for that blogs existence. All in the EU will most likely within the next few weeks be subject to the non-democratic institutions of this unaccountable monstrosity).

English Democrats to try again in Crewe

Send a loud message to the troughers selling out your country.

Anyone but the three main candidates, if you do not want ever more of the same!

Lisbon Treaty ratification (coming soon) will doom democracy for ever!

One Month Remains!

A month from today we will be learning the result of the Irish Referendum on the EU Reform Treaty/ Lisbon Treaty/ Constitutional Treaty. If enacted the true nature of this democracy destroying measure will quickly be rammed home to 500 million subjugated European citizens. Are the Irish people really going to risk the pariah status of having brought this authoritarianism to the nationals of 26 other formerly independent and sovereign nations?

Labour Party Catastrophe

The Sun has a YouGov poll putting Labour 0n 23 per cent versus the Tories at 49. Many alternative Labour leaders make the situation worse. Read it here. Can the House of Lords really permit this most unpopular government of all time end our democracy by passing the EU Reform Treaty without the promised referendum?