The new EU has been signed, and it is a great success! Thank goodness Tony saved that one for Britain!
What I fail to understand is why this Government refuses to ask the public what it wants. Why has Labour shied away from calling a referendum on the treaty and engaging the public in a real and informed debate on our future role in a new and enlarged EU?
The answer probably is the public would give the wrong answer. We have not been consulted about Europe now for more than 30 years and the EU beast has changed significantly from its creation. The Myth of the 4 redlines ha been created so that it seems there is no need for a referendum because there is no major shift in power to Europe. I think the EU being able to sign treaties is a major shift in power and a loss of sovereignty and an obliteration of democracy in this country. The EU remains obscure, distant, and undemocratic. I want to be ruled by British MPs under British Law issued from Westminster.
Call me what you will; reactionary; xenophobic; old fashioned, I don’t care. It is my right as a citizen to choose those that govern me; the EU parliament is hardly representative my home constituency is the entire southwest region! This treaty has further empowered Brussels bureaucrats at the expense of out own governments.
The EU needs to be clearer about its aims and purposes, there then needs to be a full and frank consultation with the public to see if they want to be apart of that. This hasn’t happened and we have been signed into the unknown. We have been a free country for longer than anyother in Europe but it would seem that we are increasingly becoming province in a EU state.
If you’ll allow me this flippancy, it would seem Hitler and Napoleon have won out, French and German domination of Europe is becoming increasingly a reality.
The EU is becoming too powerful and remains unaccountable to the person on the street. I want to be governed from London by British people, under British laws. God save the Queen over Ode to Joy anyday.
24/06/2007 at 23:19 |
so…no blogs about brown for…a couple of months. come on, what do you think of his prospects.
24/06/2007 at 23:23 |
so…no blogs about brown for…a couple of months. come on, what do you think of his prospects..
25/06/2007 at 17:32 |
joseph please send a blog to theo outlining your ow views on his prospects we will gladly put it up for you.
25/06/2007 at 21:05 |
im with PT
26/06/2007 at 15:23 |
quentin davies has joined labour. thoughts?
29/06/2007 at 02:19 |
Look, the sooner the Tory Party ceases to be frightened of Europe, the sooner it will look electable. Who is this great beast of Europe you speak of? In case anyone hasn’t noticed, we are Europe and as the second largest country in the EU, we have a significant influence over EU policy and this is set to grow if you look at economic and demographioc trends over the next 50 years.