With the result of the Irish referendum we know that the Lisbon Treaty (EU ‘constitution) is legally and democratically illegitimate.
However we know that it is the intention of the EU establishment to seek to override this decision.
This may be done by either making the Irish to vote again, perhaps by making special concessions to them to be added to a future MKII Lisbon Treaty, or the EU Commission will choose to ignore the Irish vote entirely and seek to implement the Lisbon Treaty by stealth through compliant national parliaments of the member states, and do so piecemeal incrementally so that the general public will be largely unaware of what is taking place.
It is very likely that they would do this if all the member states, with the possible exception of the Irish, and possibly Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany, ratify the Treaty. They will argue that such ratification will give Lisbon ‘democratcic legitimacy’.
In anticipation of such a move, and in order to warn both Crec supporters and a wider public, I wish to suggest that we encourage all to write to their MPs taking into account the ‘post Lisbon’ situation and how it may turn for the worse as suggested above.
A short, and simple letter to all MPs is suggested to counter a tendency by any future political party and government to implement any part of Lisbon on the grounds that it has been ratified in the UK.
Something along the following lines:
Dear MP.
It is acknowledged by all political parties in the UK and more widely that the EU Lisbon Treaty (aka EU ‘constitution) is now legally and constitutionally dead due to the Irish ‘No’ vote in their referendum in June 2008.
I would now be grateful if you would kindly confirm the following two points as representing the legal position:
1. That the Lisbon Treaty as a whole, or in part, or re-drafted, repackaged, or recycled, notwithstanding its illegal ratification in the UK Parliament, has no legal or democratic legitimacy. Therefore any of its clauses may be wholly ignored by British subjects if re-introduction of these is attempted by the EU Commission through a British Parliament.
2. That the principles and terms of our British Declaration and Bill of Rights (1688/9) remain as a primary constitutional basis for the governance of the United Kingdom.
Yours & etc.
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1 gwood // Jul 5, 2008 at 8:37 pm
With the result of the Irish referendum we know that the Lisbon Treaty (EU ‘constitution) is legally and democratically illegitimate.
However we know that it is the intention of the EU establishment to seek to override this decision.
This may be done by either making the Irish to vote again, perhaps by making special concessions to them to be added to a future MKII Lisbon Treaty, or the EU Commission will choose to ignore the Irish vote entirely and seek to implement the Lisbon Treaty by stealth through compliant national parliaments of the member states, and do so piecemeal incrementally so that the general public will be largely unaware of what is taking place.
It is very likely that they would do this if all the member states, with the possible exception of the Irish, and possibly Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany, ratify the Treaty. They will argue that such ratification will give Lisbon ‘democratcic legitimacy’.
In anticipation of such a move, and in order to warn both Crec supporters and a wider public, I wish to suggest that we encourage all to write to their MPs taking into account the ‘post Lisbon’ situation and how it may turn for the worse as suggested above.
A short, and simple letter to all MPs is suggested to counter a tendency by any future political party and government to implement any part of Lisbon on the grounds that it has been ratified in the UK.
Something along the following lines:
Dear MP.
It is acknowledged by all political parties in the UK and more widely that the EU Lisbon Treaty (aka EU ‘constitution) is now legally and constitutionally dead due to the Irish ‘No’ vote in their referendum in June 2008.
I would now be grateful if you would kindly confirm the following two points as representing the legal position:
1. That the Lisbon Treaty as a whole, or in part, or re-drafted, repackaged, or recycled, notwithstanding its illegal ratification in the UK Parliament, has no legal or democratic legitimacy. Therefore any of its clauses may be wholly ignored by British subjects if re-introduction of these is attempted by the EU Commission through a British Parliament.
2. That the principles and terms of our British Declaration and Bill of Rights (1688/9) remain as a primary constitutional basis for the governance of the United Kingdom.
Yours & etc.
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