Ireland votes NO

The decision of the Irish voter to reject the Lisbon Treaty at a referendum, denied to U.K voters, has been welcomed as a victory for People Power!

The U.K's National Liberal Party National Secretary David Durant said "We were denied a referendum on this Treaty in Britain because our politicians lied and changed their mind because they feared a NO vote. The Irish have traditionally been less sceptic than here so it is clear that the British people would vote NO too. We call upon Prime Minister Brown to announce this Sunday on Magna Carta Day* that he is suspending Britain's ratification. Anything less will be another betrayal of the British people"

The NLP came into existence partly due to the Liberal Democrats reneging on a promise to support a Treaty referendum.

* The Magna Carta document, recognising that a King's subjects had rights, was signed on 15th June 1215. The NLP are running a Liberty Moneybomb on the day asking for donations http://www.15thjunemagnacarta.org
Contact: David Durant - National Secretary - 0776 1976219 or natliberal@aol.com
Address: PO Box 4217, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 4PJ www.nationalliberal.org

BRUGES GROUP WELCOMES IRISH NO VOTE: Calls upon EU to obey its own rules Calls upon the UK Prime Minister to agree to a referendum

The Bruges Group spearheads the intellectual battle against the notion of "ever-closer Union" in Europe and, above all, against British involvement in a single European state.

Honorary President: The Rt Hon. the Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, OM, FRS
Vice-President: The Rt Hon. the Lord Lamont of Lerwick, Co-Chairmen: Dr Brian Hindley & Barry Legg
Director: Robert Oulds MA, Head of Research: Dr Helen Szamuely
Washington D.C. Representative: John O'Sullivan, CBE
Founder Chairman: Lord Harris of High Cross, Former Chairmen: Dr Martin Holmes & Professor Kenneth Minogue

The main British eurosceptic think-tank has welcomed the Irish 'No' vote to the Lisbon Treaty, which is nothing more than the Constitutional Treaty Mark II. The Constitutional Treaty had been rejected by the people of France and Netherlands. Now the people of Ireland, the only country that had a referendum on Lisbon, have also rejected the re-heated EU Constitution. The people's of other member states were refused a say on the Lisbon Treaty.

The European Union has lost whatever legitimacy it may have possessed in the distant past.

The EU treaties say that each new treaty has to be ratified by all signatories, that is all member states. The Bruges Group calls upon the EU to obey its own rules and abandon this misguided attempt to impose an unwanted European constitution on the member states and their people.

The Bruges Group calls upon the Prime Minister to do the honourable thing (if he knows what that is) and call a referendum on the Treaty in the United Kingdom, as it was promised in the manifesto on which this government was elected in 2005.

Robert Oulds, Director of the Bruges Group said:
"It is not true that this decision should be left to Parliament. MPs were not elected to give away even more powers to the European Union. They were elected on a promise to ask the people about the treaty. They must honour that promise. It is already true that eighty per cent of our new laws come from the European Union. Even when it goes through Parliament, which is not always the case, it has no right to reject any EU legislation. What, then, is the purpose of that institution and what do MPs get paid for? To sign away more legislative powers??"

For further information contact: Robert Oulds, Director, The Bruges Group
227 Linen Hall, 162-168 Regent Street, London W1B 5TB UK

Tel: +44(0) 20 7287 4414,    Mobile: 07740 029787,   E-mail: info@brugesgroup.com

Get back to where your belong:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6G7MkBMVxE

£115 million is being sent each week to the EU.    It's time to put a stop to this:  see Stop the Cheques

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amended 15 June 2008