Letter from Mrs M Boardman
This is a personal and individual contribution
to the call for evidence by Sub Committee E (Law and Institutions):
Area of Freedon, Security and Justice and the impact of the Reform
Treaty on the UK. I am Mrs Margaret Boardman, an ordinary member
of the public. I am not a member of any political Party.
1. With the exception of the Labour Government
the Reform Treaty is generally thought and said to be the old
rejected EU Constitution repackaged and renamed. We, the British
people, already have our own Constitution under which NO
Parliament can bind its successors. That is exactly what has happened
and continues to happen. To ratify this treaty would be a total
betrayal of the British people. At no time have the British people
been consulted on the transfer of power to run our great country
to the emerging superstate, the European Union. I question the
legality of any of the EU treaties, starting with the Treaty of
Rome in 1973 to this present day. All were signed by treasonous
politicians without any democratic vote by the people. Sadly there
is no political will or anyone with enough backbone to demand
that Article 49 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on Treaties be invoked.
2. Any erosion of the principal of Habeas
Corpus in favour of Corpus Juris and the European Napoleonic Code
is of very great concern to me. The reversal of the burden of
proof changes that relationship between the State and the people.
The Napoleonic Code is specifically designed to ensure supremacy
of the State. In the UK historically the State is the servant
of the people.
3. A treaty with a self amending article
is unthinkable. It would allow future changes to be made without
having to refer back to member states. This would give the EU
bureaucrats the power to do anything they wish. It would destroy
everything our fathers and forefathers fought to protect. Many
gave their lives to protect our democratic way of life and our
independence. Make no mistake; the EU is not a democracy.
4. The loss of veto in many areas means
that the UK will be powerless to veto EU laws. Eg Freedom
to control our own borders. Without the power to control
our own borders and limit immigration to our small island, the
UK would soon be swamped by economic migrants we cannot integrate
and criminals that we cannot deport. Our society and social structure
is already feeling the strain. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners
settled here last year and as more countries join the EU, the
problem will keep increasing. It is quite clear that this is affecting
our way of life and is one of the reasons so many British people
are leaving the UK. It is not only retired people moving to a
warmer climate. Many young couples concerned about the democratic
deficit and the futures of their children are leaving our shores.
So great is the pressure of this influx of immigrants on our society
that it is likely to completely destroy the very thing that made
them want to move to the UK in the first place. By that time the
damage will be irreparable.
With the move to Qualified Majority Voting there
is more chance of EU laws being imposed on Britiain regardless
of whether our Government, Parliament and the people all oppose
them. This would be completely unacceptable.
22 November 2007
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