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Friday, September 22, 2006
Another surrender to the EU
Without any fuss, fanfare or ‘Dave’ seemingly noticing; Blair plans to give away our veto on Justice and Home Affairs at the EU Tampere summit.
Lord Stoddart of Swindon, from the Campaign for an Independent Britain has this to say
“I am gravely concerned that the Government seems prepared to negotiate away our veto on Justice and Home Affairs without even discussing it with Parliament. This amounts to a major treaty change, which it appears the Government seems to think it has the authority to accept, without the approval of Parliament. This amounts to government by decree.
“I would like to know why this matter is being raised now and why the Government considers that it has the authority to bypass Parliament and negotiate away a veto, which would signal the end of 800 years of independent judiciary in Britain. Casualties of this appalling surrender of government may very well include the right to trial by jury, habeas corpus and the presumption of innocence. Making British justice subject to qualified majority voting is a disastrous idea and no government in its right mind would even consider it.
“The growing power of the EU is a major threat to our Parliamentary democracy and to our civil liberties”.
This is of course part of the long term game plan to remove what remains of our country’s independence and ability to set policy. By giving up our veto (for zero return of course) and allowing QMV this opens the door for a directive setting Corpus Juris as the only legal system allowed in EU member states. The Government will first deny the issue, then say that it won’t affect us before finally admitting that it is happening but it is too late and nothing can be done. This is of course a well trodden path.
So our ancient justice system and the father of all the great legal systems of the world is to be left in the hands of unelected Brussels federal suits and there is nary a squeak from the press. David Davis seems to be the only one of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition who is saying anything, and that isn’t very loud. The whole damned front bench should be shouting from the roof tops, I suspect ‘Dave’ is more of a federalist than he would like to let on.