Next Tuesday, the House of Commons will vote on the European Union Bill. The Telegraph reports: “Eurosceptic Tories will table radical changes to the legislation, which they claim does not deliver on its promise of a referendum on future transfers of powers to the European Union.” In fact, it points out “The prospect of a pincer movement of Labour MPs and Tory rebels is acutely worrying for Mr Cameron, whose Coalition majority of 76 would be overturned if just over half that number of Tories joined forces with Labour.”
Bill Cash was quoted saying "The Government has come forward with a proposal which could make things worse. My amendments reaffirm the supremacy of the UK Parliament.” Moreover, he stressed "I would say this is a matter of national interest, not party politics. This is a crucial matter of the national interest and I would hope all MPs would react accordingly and support my amendment."
The Daily Express also quoted Bill Cash as saying “It is essential that MPs protect their constituents, because that’s what we have been elected to do.
“This is about who governs Britain. It’s not our Parliament as MPs, it’s the people’s Parliament and it is our duty to uphold it.”
The Europe Bill is the silliest piece of legislation ever put before Parliament. The submission of the UK to endless EU law derives entirely from the Acts of Parliament enacting the various EU Treaties to which successive governments have subjected the UK.
The EU has extended its non-democratic control through a succession of treaties, but treaties are made between sovereign states and even the EU admits that any of them is entitled to leave the EU. The European Bill merely restates the existing position and has still got it all wrong. The UK Constitution has nothing to do with common law, which is about judges deciding cases according to precedent, subject to the right of Parliament to legislate in any area. The UK Constitution is the basis on which UK law is enacted and enforced. It is a constitutional monarchy under which a democratically elected parliament has sovereign power. There is a separation of powers and judges have no right to legislate, subject to their limited rights under common law to establish precedents for new situations.
But though EU law takes precedence by virtue of Acts of Parliament which can be repealed, the position since UK accession to the original European Communities is totally different from anything applying previously. A massive amount of legislation over which the UK has no control is directly enforceable in the UK and will continue to apply directly in UK law with no national powers to override it. In addition, the last three Labour governments have given UK judges vast powers to legislate under foreign ‘human rights’ laws and our traitor judges (giving ones country away is usually called treason) have abused those ‘rights’ to allow endless numbers of foreigners to stay in the UK, including terrorists intending mass-murder of UK citizens. In this disastrous situation it is ridiculous for the government to assert an obligation to call a referendum if EU powers are extended. In addition, the need for a referendum in future implies that we are permanently committed to the existing state of EU control. The EU is not quite sure how it will abolish the nation states that are its members (especially as they include a number of monarchies) and incorporate them into the great European Superstate. But it will help that the member-states’ constitutions have become hollow shells accepting overriding European law in every area.
The British Constitution also assumes that the citizens/voters are British, but under Labour’s treasonable mass-immigration policies the British, more specifically the English, who keep the country going, will soon be outnumbered by immigrants from all over the world. This is already being accelerated by the Lisbon Treaty, which admits everyone from East Europe to the UK and makes our government responsible for the social-security, health, housing and education costs of those countries. Most immigrants, and the citizens of the Irish Republic entitled to vote in UK elections, will not be in the least concerned about British interests if a referendum were to be held on the further extension of EU powers. Most of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish would only be concerned about retaining their subsidies. The same would apply to a referendum on UK withdrawal from the EU. Cameron should stop trying to pass meaningless legislation on the EU and should be putting forward a complete end to mass-immigration, overturning the Labour police state, ending the judges’ powers to legislate and arranging for UK withdrawal from the EU, but he is too stupid and cowardly to do so.
A slight note of hope is that the core EU-members are beginning to see that the membership of the rotten ex-communist states from East Europe, possibly followed by Turkey, in addition to the hopeless Mediterranean members and Ireland, is making a complete political and economic nonsense of the Great European Project. There is also the problem that the EU is quite incapable of defending itself militarily. But that is their concern, and the only concern of the UK is to get out of the EU and get out of every idiotic international obligation to admit endless numbers of foreigners to stay forever in our country. The fatuous Libdems will kick up a fuss, but they can safely be ignored because they know that will be wiped out in any early election.