Comment from the
DEMOCRACY
MOVEMENT 20th April 2007:
The Democracy Movement has responded to reports in the newspapers and on
satellite TV today that Tony Blair, the present labour party prime minister of
the UK, plans to commit the UK to a new EU treaty without allowing the British
people a chance to say NO in a referendum.
This is the opposite of what was promised, that we the people would be able to put a stop to this EU treaty nonsense in a referendum. This is totally unacceptable.
Marc Glendening, the Democracy Movement campaign director said:
"EU leaders are still not listening. The 'NO' votes to the EU Constitution treaty showed that people want more responsive government, not more decisions taken by majority vote in remote institutions in Brussels. Recent polls show that 83% in Britain want a referendum on any new EU treaty that passes further powers to the EU, and that 51% want a looser arrangement with the EU. Yet the government plans to give up more vetoes and deny people a say. Gordon Brown is unlikely to thank Tony Blair for committing him to pushing through such a risky affront to democracy in the run up to a likely close-fought general election. It's time for Tony Blair and other EU leaders to listen, drop the outdated super state dogma, and start acting on what people clearly want. Co-operation, not 1950s-planned political integration.
The DM will put its full weight behind ensuring the government sticks to its pledge to hold a referendum if the new EU treaty that Tony Blair envisages becomes a reality.
Edward Heathcoat Amory:
The government's opt outs do not stand up to even cursory scrutiny. The machinery of europe is pervasive. The charter, conferring a wide variety of new rights on European citizens will first affect European law as interpreted by the European court. As European law has primacy over English law out courts will soon have to fall into line.
How on earth did our politicians allow something so stupid to happen. We must never allow another country or group of countries to make laws for us. Are our politicians Nazi sympathisers ? Are they traitors ? Are the appeasers of Hitler ? Common sense answers these questions. Our governing ministers appear to have no common sense. Have they gone mad ?
£115 million is being sent each week to the EU. It's time to put a stop to this also: see Stop the Cheques
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