Select Committee on European Union Written Evidence


Letter from D Adams

RE: PROPOSED E.U. REFORM TREATY (ALSO KNOWN AS THE "LISBON TREATY")

  Your Lordships,

  Ever since Edward Heath took Britain into the E.E.C. in 1973, politicians of all parties have consistently deceived the British electorate about the true purpose of the European Union, ie: to create a United States of Europe, where the ordinary citizens of Europe will be nothing more than slaves of a system they cannot vote out of office.

  The new E.U. Reform Treaty is basically the same as the old E.U. Constitution. Mr Giscard d'Estaing, who chaired the drafting of the original E.U. Constitution, has said that "the institutional proposals of the original constitutional treaty are to be found complete in the new treaty and, that the revived version was deliberately drafted in such a manner as to try to avoid the people of Europe having their say on it".

  Part of the British democratic constitution of self government is the hard won right of the indigenous British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. The British people have given to Parliament the power to make all their laws for them, but they have never given Parliament permission to give that power away. Parliament has usurped the power of the people by giving E.U. Commission the right to make our laws. The E.U. Commission has the monopoly to propose all new laws in the E.U., but is undemocratic, unelected and corrupt.

    1)  The Treaty will have primacy over the laws of all member states.

    2)  The Treaty creates a European criminal justice system, with a European Public Prosecutor and an E.U. legal code. This runs directly counter to our own common law traditions and will require Britain to give up its' Habeas Corpus, the presumption of innocence and right to trial by jury.

    3)  40 plus, national vetoes will be abolished as a result of adopting the Treaty.

    4)  Brussels jurisdiction is specified in almost every area of government policy; transport, energy, public health, trade, employment, social policy, competition, foreign affairs, defence, agriculture, fisheries, asylum and immigration and of course, justice.

    5)  The Treaty will become self-amending, meaning that any future transfers of power to the E.U. will not require new treaties.

    6)  The day the treaty enters into force, all previous E.U. treaties will be dissolved; the E.U. will cease to be an association of states bound by international treaties, and will become a State in its own right—the United States of Europe.

    7)  The new Treaty will also require that any of the "Red Line" areas Gordon Brown currently talks about, will disappear when qualified majority voting starts in a few years time.

  The British people must be allowed a binding referendum on the subject of the new E.U. Reform Treaty.

November 2007



 
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