The Lisbon Treaty: was it an historic turning point?
Eurofacts-2rd November,2007 Vol 13 No 2
WAS THURSDAY 18th OCTOBER 2007 the DAY on which BRITAIN ceased to be AN INDEPENDENT NATION STATE? OR will historians writing a decade hence pick some other date?
In according with the strategy laid down by the EU 's founding father Jean Monnet, the transfer of powers from member states to the institutions of European government has been gradual. A case can be made for saying that previous EU treaties transferred equal or greater powers from member states to the European institutions, but that is to miss the MAIN POINT. From Rome to Lisbon the EU treaties can be seen as staging posts on the route to a unitary European state. Historians are nevertheless conclude that 18th October, 2007 -"Black Thursday" [or in our words "Traitors Day"] as it may come to be known - was an important TURNING POINT. This was the moment when the pretence that NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE could be preserved in the context of a wider political union become not merely a FRAUD but an obvious one. AT THAT MOMENT, the ratification of the treaty in sight, all the main building bricks of the new EUROPEAN STATE -in COMMISSION in PARLIAMENT in SUPREME COURT and CONSTITUTION -were firmly in place. It was at this point that the claim that SOVEREIGNTY was being pooled rather than surrendered and that BRITISH INDEPENDENCE consequently remained intact was at last exposed as NONSENSE and therefore became counter-productive as a means of as assuaging public concerns. THAT IS THE POINT WHICH WE HAVE NOW ARRIVED [AFTER 35 YEARS OF LIES]
Britain's involvement in the EUROPEAN PROJECT began with the LIE -that there would be NO ESSENTIAL TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY a DECEPTION upon which a whole series of lesser deceptions have subsequently been constructed.
It is entirely in keeping with the history of British membership of the EU that the Government's position on the Lisbon Treaty should be based on a LIE of almost equal magnitude THE LIE that the Treaty is not of a constitutional character, even though it gives the EU LEGAL PERSONALITY Abolishes the NATIONAL VETO in 61 Areas Creates a FOREIGN MINISTER and DIPLOMATIC SERVICE in all but name as well as a PERMANENT PRESIDENCY while providing the means by which further powers can be transferred to BRUSSELS. In two respects the treaty is worse than Giscard's original document: It is less honest in n that it seeks to conceal its own SCOPE and PURPOSE and it is almost entirely UNINTELLIGIBLE.
Does Mr Brown believe in the provisions of the TREATY to whose defence he must now devote considerable political resources? THE QUESTION IS ACADEMIC As Daniel Hannan has written, whatever he thinks of it Brown is too establishment-minded, too risk-averse, too lacking in conviction and courage either to perform a historic volte face or to run the risk of running a campaign WHICH HE MIGHT LOSE. The British are traditionally slow to recognise challenges to their essential national interest, but they are currently taking such tardiness TO NEW LIMITS Indeed the present national obtuseness is of such an order that even mild-mannered eurosceptics, the kind who are not demonstrably swivel-eyed or prone to foam-flecked denunciations of all things European, are driven to despair WHY -is not TRAFALGAR SQUARE full of those angrily protesting against so obvious BETRAYAL OF TRUST? And yet it is still just possible that "Black Thursday" could turn out to be a very different kind of turning point. To begin with, ratification may not turn out to be painless as Mr Brown's allies suggest. By allowing a lengthy period for Parliamentary ratification the Prime Minister believes he can open divisions within the Conservative Party of the kind that emerged during the parliamentary battles over MAASTRICHT. He is surely deluded. Treaty ratification is bound to be a bigger problem for the incumbent government than for the OPPOSITION. And unlike Mr Brown, Mr Major never PROMISED a REFERENDUM.
The more the PUBLIC learn of the LISBON TREATY the less they will like it. In the past the British public, although inclined to eurosceptism, has put other matters- CRIME IMMIGRATION ECONOMIC WELL-BEING for example -higher up its list of concerns THAN EUROPE. A line by line examination of the TREATY will demonstrate the inextricable link between those concerned and membership of the [EUROPEAN] UNION. More than any eurosceptic pamphlet, it will demonstrate the extent to which in these areas membership of the EUROPEAN UNION either prevents or inhibits the Government from following policies based on the NATIONAL INTEREST [ENGLISH/SCOTTISH/WELSH] For the first time a majority may come to grasp the enormity of WHAT IS AT STAKE and begin to understand that 'EUROPE' is not just something which happens 'over there'. Further courageous and principled defiance by eurosceptics within the Labour party such as those that can be expected from Gisela Stuart and Kate Hoey will make Mr Brown's task more difficult, even though they are bound to be subject to blood-curdling threats from the Labour Whips 'OFFICE. The Government is bound to be scarred and battered in the process but defeat in the HOUSE OF COMMONS remains an outside prospect [so close to obtaining their reward in an ELITE ridden UNITED STATES OF EUROPE] -unless, of course, a newly elected leader of the Lib-Dems recognises that the biggest blow it can strike against the LABOUR GOVERNMENT is to ask it to honour its MANIFESTO PROMISE to support the demand for a REFERENDUM. Mr Brown is also likely to face difficulties in getting the legislation through the [HOUSE of] LORDS; threats by the Upper House to turn back legislation seldom materialise but a group of highly motivated and extremely knowledgeable eurosceptic peers have it within their power to add to the GOVERNMENT'S ACUTE PUBLIC RELATIONS PROBLEMS. Already the REFERENDUM ISSUE is acting as a recruiting sergeant for the eurosceptic cause; this is becoming more vocal and self-confident, angrier and more determined. Tens of thousands have signed on-line petitions in favour of a plebiscite, while plans for the Westminster rally held on 27th October demonstrate a growing level of cooperation between eurosceptic groups. [See our bulletin for details of the botched so-called cooperation between EUROSCEPTIC groups from one who was there - with NO march or rallying speeches from the Queen Elizabeth Conference Hall. WE HAD WARNED on many occasions in the past that unless they UNITED quickly, then in the words of our greatest War Leader Winston Churchill in his warning of the rise of Hitler and German rearmament to a packed House of Commons in the pre-World War II 'Gathering Storm' years when he forcefully reminded the House, it would be: TOO LATE! and so it has proved TO BE!] Ratification of the TREATY will not of itself dissipate the head of steam now being built up; indeed it could have exactly the opposite effect.
A new pressure group - Global Vision - is already exploiting the referendum issue to argue for a new relationship with EUROPE. Its architects posit the possibility of achieving this without withdrawal from the EU. We frankly doubt whether this is remotely possible. But we welcome a debate on how its objectives might be most effectively achieved because it is at least 25 YEARS OVERDUE. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party can be seen inching its way to a more robust policy under the impact of events. [WE DOUBT IT! they will of course use the opportunity to make party political capital out of the EU issue but their past record had shown that they are not to be trusted. Only a few week's ago after assurances from William Hague that when they are returned to power they would repeal the Lisbon Treaty should it be ratified by PARLIAMENT. Shortly after David Cameron would give no such assurance. We have always considered Mr Nice Guy Dave as the EU man in the shadows to carry on the work of Tony Blair and his refusal to support William Hague's statement is another instance of support for our contention. The Conservatives have signed the bulk of the EU TREATIES and on the occasion of their Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was heard after - saying to his colleague Francis Maude 'We'd better find out what we've just signed' -obviously he felt his colleague at the signing was also as they say 'in the dark' Since October 10, 2005 we have been made aware that Ted Heath had been a Nazi spy for over 60 years before his death in that year and that his companions in TREASON were Roy Jenkins and Geoffrey Rippon who were together in Balliol College Oxford in 1938 when the then Master A D Lindsay reported their Nazi spy ring to MI5. There are others with us today who have yet to be revealed. ] [Eurofacts] -Our conclusion is that historians may conclude that "Black Thursday" was the day when Britain finally abandoned its long tradition of self-government, but it is also possible they might conclude that it was the moment when the eurosceptics began a belated but historic fight-back to halt the trend of previous decades and to recover what had been lost. IT IS UP TO US.
* Why the Treaty was meant to be unreadable
The Lisbon treaty which EU Prime Ministers signed up to on 18th October,2007 is not unintelligible by accident or design. Explaining the background to the present text Giuliano Amato, the former Italian prime Minister and one of the principle architects of the rejected [2005] Constitution on which the text has been faithfully based made this clear in a speech in London on 16th July, 2007: 'They [EU leaders] decided that the document should be unreadable. if it is unreadable, it is not constitutional, that was the sort of perception. Should you succeed in understanding it at first sight there might be some reason for a referendum, because it would mean that there is something new'. The document has been rendered unintelligible through the ingenious ruse of turning proposals contained in Giscard's original constitution into amendments to the existing treaties; these can subsequently only be understood if they are placed in the context of a consolidated version. But when Jens-peter Bonde, the Danish eurosceptic MEP recently pressed the [EU]Commission to [produce such a thing he was told that the Inter Governmental Conference had decided that an official consolidated text, which is expected to run to around 3000 pages, would only be published after the TREATY had been RATIFIED. [They're not bloody daft those lunatics. Why should they be. They have been pulling the wool over people's eyes for over 35 years. They have counted on the docile attitude of the majority in order to achieve their Super-State and they have not been disappointed though there is still the final hurdle to be overcome but if recent events have any message to give it is that unless the PEOPLE get interested then they deserve the fate that is just around the corner out of sight which will jolt them rigid when the door into SLAVERY is revealed and the door from FREEDOM has been SHUT- possibly for decades to come.] There could be no clearer evidence that Europe's political leaders DO NOT WANT ordinary citizens to read or understand the TREATY UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE! TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. In Britain the Government PR machine has been used to stress the allegedly modest nature of the changes compared to previous treaties. BUT IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT that LISBON will result in the loss of a greater number of national veto's- 61 in all -than was the case with any other treaty. The Treaty of Rome listed 38 areas for qualified majority voting * The Single European Act listed 12 areas. * Maastricht Treaty listed 30 * The Amsterdam Treaty listed 24 * Nice Treaty listed 46 * [And to think that so many British politicians over the past 35 years have by stealth and deceit and down-right LIES are only months for reducing our country to a PROVINCE of EUROPE.
In our first election leaflet in 1997 we asked for 'ENGLAND to AWAKE BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE' regrettably many didn't want to know then and many are still of that mind today in November, 2007 only month's away if we let it happen from the loss of our CONSTITUTION-CROWN and COUNTRY * * *
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* Treaty changes designed only to sell document TRUTH from Dr Garret FitzGerald, former Irish Taoiseach and leading member of the [PRO-EU] international European Movement writing in the Irish Times on 30th June 2007. " As for the changes now proposed to be made to the constitutional treaty, most are presentational changes that have no effect. They have simply been designed to enable certain heads of government [YOU KNOW WHO] to sell to their people the idea of ratification by parliamentary action rather than by REFERENDUM.... " Apart from a brief, last - minute postponement (designed to buy off Polish opposition) of the introduction of a new system of qualified majority voting [QMV], the remaining adjustments to be made to the treaty signed in 2004-but still not ratified by nine member states are essentially presentational and have no perceptible legal effect." Eurofacts-July 27-2007
* BUT at July 27th-2007- The British Government will not reveal the FULL TRUTH of the consequences of the TREATY to the British people or hold a REFERENDUM which the GOVERNMENT PROMISED. * On the 5th October, 2007 Anthony Coughlan
[See above for www.vote.no.com] A letter to Eurofacts Why the Constitution Matters. Dear Sir. May I express to you the opinion that it is a big mistake of democrats and EU critics in Britain and internationally to neglect to draw attention to the fact that the proposed new EU CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY would establish what would be a NEW EUROPEAN UNION -in effect A STATE and would make us all real citizens of this NEW SUPRANATIONAL STATE -for the first time, with real citizens' duties and obligations to the NEW UNION. The message has the potential, it seems to me of "getting through" to ordinary citizens as no other aspect of the EU TREATY has. It shows convincingly why the NEW TREATY would really bring into being an EU CONSTITUTION and a SUPRANATIONAL EU FEDERATION built upon that.
But this point, so far as one can see, is scarcely ever mentioned in EU-critical propaganda against the NEW TREATY THAT IS RATHER BAFFLING. It is very important to grasp that under its provisions the EUROPEAN COUNCIL the quarterly EU summit meetings, would become a formal EU "INSTITUTION" whose acts, and failures to act, would be subject to review by the COURT of JUSTICE as with any EU/EC institution Your readers will agree, I am sure, that it is quite important that the EU summit meetings of EU HEADS of STATE or GOVERNMENT acting "intergovernmentally", but that the latter would - at least if they act in accordance with their obligations under the NEW TREATY -be expected to have their EU HATS ON ALL THE TIME, COLLECTIVELY and INDIVIDUALLY.
Also under the NEW TREATY the members of the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT would become representatives "of the citizens" of the NEW UNION not of the peoples of the EC MEMBER STATES as hereto, which is an indicator of the CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE THE TREATY WOULD BRING. * Anthony Coughlan.
Secretary
[See above for www.vote.no.com]
[Since the emergence of the EDP in 1994 we have constantly put the above case to the British people. But it appears that until recently few wished to face the TRUTH of the LOSS of their COUNTRY to be replaced by the creation of a Frankenstein monster in the shape of a corrupt unaccountable police state calling itself THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE. The TRUTH was known 40 years ago and by the majority of politicians and all prime ministers ever since but the public was to be hoodwinked until the trap was finally set and that occurred in October, 2007. The millions of the' ELITE 'in the 27 countries are determined that the majority of the people within the EU must not be made aware of the dangers until the NEW TREATY is finally ratified in ALL the member states. * * *
* THE PEOPLE HAVE
SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING? *
Ditch the EU TREATY after IRISH
REJECTION SAY VOTERS by Daniel
Martin Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should
drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its
rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch
bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION OF
THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING STREET-
WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T YOU?]
Downing Street
website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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