The
Dirty Little Secret Is That Our MPs
Hardly Matter Any More
by
THE
Melanie
Phillips
COLUMN
[Daily Mail-Monday, June 9,2008]
CUP
YOUR ears, What is that sound we are
suddenly picking up on the bush
telegraph?
[PANIC]
It
is the distant but unmistakable
trumpeting of the elephant in the
room. And the name of that most
dangerous but lamentably
unscrutinised animal is the
EUROPEAN UNION.
The
EU is the issue that all politicians
are ignoring in the hope we will
forget about it. Most immediately,
they hope we have forgotten to be
concerned about the
EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION
which is masquerading as a
bog-standard treaty over which we
need lose no sleep.
This constitution, which would bring
into being a
SUPER-STATE
and
end once and for all what remains of
the
INDEPENDENCE
OF
EU MEMBER STATES
was
dumped after it was rejected by
FRENCH and DUTCH
voters
in
2005.
It
was then resurrected in all but name
as the
TREATY of LISBON
which
PARLIAMENT
is
in the process of ratifying.
This week, that
CONSTITUTION
faces a triple test.
Today, businessman Stuart Wheeler's
legal challenge to Labour's refusal
to honour its
MANIFESTO PLEDGE
to
put it to a
REFERENDUM
reaches the
HIGH COURT.
On
Wednesday , the ratification Bill
reaches the
HOUSE OF LORDS.
This Bill was ruthlessly shoe-horned
through the
COMMONS
This week we will see whether their
Lordships will also spinelessly roll
over, or recall their historic role
as the last-ditch defence of this
country's interests against
SUCH ABUSE OF POWER.
PANIC
But
something else is happening which
our politicians didn't bargain for.
As we know, the constitution has to
be approved by every member state or
else it falls. On
THURSDAY 12th JUNE,2008
IRELAND VOTES ON THE TREATY
-and it looks as if
IT MIGHT VOTE AGAINST IT.
[IT DID]
The
Irish government is filled with
panic and horror at the possibility
that the Irish public might actually
be thinking for themselves. For the
EU has always relied on bamboozling
the public about the joys of EUtopia
and terrifying them that their whole
world will collapse if it is
thwarted.
More and more people, however, are
realising that they have lied to,
not only about the constitution but
about the whole EU project. In
Britain we were told from the start
that it was only an economic union
which would entail no loss of
sovereignty.
THAT WAS THE OPPOSITE OF THE TRUTH
The
dirty little secret is that, even
without the constitution, political
power has simply drained away to
Brussels.
a
little-noticed but quite devastating
speech in the Commons last week, the
Tory MP Peter Lilly recorded that
last year the EU passed no fewer
than
177
directives
-more or less equivalent to our
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
and
2,033
regulations
enforceable in the UK, as well as
making
1,045
decisions
WHICH AFFECT US.
Our
own Trade Minister has admitted that
around half of all UK legislation
with an impact on business,
charities and the voluntary sector
stems from laws passed in
BRUSSELS.
Once these powers have been
transferred to the EU, observed Mr
Lilly, ministers engage 'in a
charade of pretence that they retain
those powers and often end up 'nobly
accepting responsibility for laws
which they actually opposed in
BRUSSELS.
Is it
any wonder that so many are
terminally disillusioned with the
entire political process when
politicians make
promises
which they are simply powerless to
keep -a fact which
they
carefully conceal.
Now
the former Tory policy adviser Lord
Blackwell is arguing that Britain
should renegotiate the
TERMS OF EU MEMBERSHIP
restricting it to
TRADE AGREEMENTS
COMMON SECURITY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
BUT REJECTING
EU CONTROL
OVER
MONETARY POLICY
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
DEFENCE
AND
JUSTICE.
An
opinion poll run by his group
GLOBAL VISION
suggests that more than a third of
voters across all parties would back
a prospective
CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT
pledge to negotiate such a change,
and that people would support it in
a
REFERENDUM
MORE than TWO to ONE.
CORRUPTING
The
fact is that those opposed to the
creation of a
EUROPEAN SUPER-STATE
are not
'xenophobes'
or
'Little Englanders'
of the overheated
Eurofanatic imagination.
On
the contrary many Eurosceptics like
their European neighbours and find
much to admire in their culture.
They merely want to carry on
governing themselves in their own
country -because they have an
enduring attachment to
DEMOCRACY
And
the EU is fundamentally an
anti-democratic project, based on
the belief that the individual
nation is the source of the ills of
the world and that by contrast
supra-national institutions offer
the solution to all its problems.
It
is that absence of democratic
transparency which is now corrupting
not just
EUROPEAN POLITICS
BUT
OUR OWN.
The
fresh outbreak of
'Tory sleaze'
over the
EXPENCES GRAVY TRAIN
is
rooted in
BRUSSELS
where corruption is the accepted way
of
EU life.
Yesterday the Irish government said
that a 'NO' vote over the
EU
CONSTITUTION
would be a crisis for
EUROPE.
WHAT RUBBISH!
The
plain fact is that the EU has
brought about a crisis for
DEMOCRACY within EUROPE
WHICH IS WHY WE SHOULD RE-NEGOTIATE
OUR PLACE
WITHIN IT.
Politicians, however, run a mile
from any such suggestion. The terror
of acknowledging the
TRUE NATURE
of what has happened, in case he
is required to address it, has
propelled David Cameron into a cul-de
sac.
[With regard to the political
intentions of David Cameron we have
always believed that he was an EU
'sleeper ' in the wings ready to
take over if Tony Blair needed
replacement. That is why it has been
impossible to get any concrete
assurances as regard renegotiating
the
LISBON TREATY
We would like to be proved wrong
about our suspicions but up to now
we can see no reason to change our
minds.]
His
pledge to allow the British people a
vote on the constitution is
worthless since -as he has only now
admitted explicity -once the treaty
is ratified it will be almost
impossible top do anything about it.
But
since his party has warned that the
EU CONSTITUTION
will spell the end of
BRITISH SELF-GOVERNMENT
this turns Mr Cameron into the
Hamlet of the European debate - an
awesome talent for speeches
denouncing
TYRANNY
but
a complete inability to act against
it.
Mr
Cameron is paralysed by fear of
reigniting the Tories' internal
civil war over
EUROPE
But
the Tory Europhiles are now
moth-eaten has-beens who have lost
the argument with the
BRITISH PEOPLE.
Opportunist
The
fact is that Parliament is now so
emasculated it is becoming the
equivalent of Westminster regional
council in the
REPUBLIC of EUROLAND.
Why
, therefore, should we bother to
vote for politicians who will have
NO POWER
except to do the bidding of the
Brussels bureaucrats imposing their
UNDEMOCRATIC RULE
over the
BRITISH PEOPLE?
IT
IS TIME TO END THIS CHARADE.
Whatever happens to the
CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY
in
IRELAND
or
ANYWHERE ELSE
BRITAIN MUST NOW RENEGOTIATE ITS
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EU
The
politician who does so will be a
HERO to the NATION
Which is why Mr Cameron should
ignore the faint-hearts and sued
-shod Eurofanatics in his ranks.
THIS COUNTRY MUST REDISCOVER ITS
IDENTITY
AND
SENSE OF PURPOSE
OR
ELSE
IT
IS FINISHED.
IT
CAN ONLY DO SO IF IT REGAINS THE
POWER
TO
RULE ITSELF.
The
issue is quite simply whether
DEMOCRACY in BRITAIN
has a future at all. It could not
be more fundamental
If Mr Cameron were to say he would
renegotiate Britain's place in
Europe, he would silence all the
mutterings that he is a blank page,
an opportunist, a follower rather
than
A LEADER.
He would immediately establish
himself instead as a
STATESMAN of the FIRST RANK
Come on, Mr Cameron: the PEOPLE
would not only be with you, but are
simply desperate to hear a
politician say that he will fight to
preserve what so many of our
fellow citizens down through the
centuries have
DIED TO
DEFEND.
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[This essay was as usual no
disappointment to us who have
followed the work of Melanie
Phillips for a number of years and
never disappointed with her
assessment on any subject under the
sun. This article was timely and no
doubt it would have had many dithers
as to the future of Europe decide
that a
FREE INDEPENDENT NATION STATE
is better for the world than the
Undemocratic super -state which as
history has shown are doomed to
failure as we have who witnessed the
Blitz in our childhood have observed
since .
We thank again Melanie Phillips and
the Daily Mail for such a timely
call to arms which was answered by
the majority of voters in Ireland
for a DEMOCRATIC EUROPE of a Family
of Free Nation States for the
betterment of EUROPE and the WORLD.]
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THE TREATY OF TREASON
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ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT IS MOST
PRECIOUS IN OUR CIVILISATION HAS
COME FROM SMALL STATES
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Empires Have Gone And Most People
Now Live In Nation States-said Lord
Shore.
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A Constitution millions have died
for is at greater risk than at any
time in it's over a Thousand Years
of History.
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Nor Shall My Sword
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Don't Let Them Destroy Our Identity
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WHY can't we have the right to be
English
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Why Are We English Made To Feel
Guilty
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The Soul of England
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The Spirit of England
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The Queen and EU Constitution
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Thoughts on St George's Day -Who are
the English
Letter from Lord Kilmuir, the Lord
Chancellor, to Edward Heath, prior
to the acceptance by Parliament of
the "Treaty of Rome"1972.
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What History Tells us About Our
History with the CONTINENT.
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I Say We Must Not Join Europe-Field
Marshall Viscount Montgomery.
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Could England Survive Outside
Europe?-YES!
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The Truth About A Federal Europe
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Our Basic Liberties And Freedoms -To
Be Surrendered To A Foreign Power.
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The Commonwealth Realms V The
Constitution For Europe.
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The Rotten Heart Of Europe by
Bernard Connolly.
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