Dear Sir,
I have no doubt that the Europhiles amongst the party apparatchiks would find it inconvenient before the forthcoming General Election if the subject matter of UK abandoning sterling and replacing it with the Euro were to come up once again. It would of course be embarrassing particularly to this Labour Government if this debate were to be reignited by the Eurosceptics.
Yet for all Gordon Brown’s posturing on the subject of currency conversion we are reminded that Article 2 para.4 of the Treaty of Lisbon ratified by the UK without the consent of its people in referendum provides quite clearly that all subscribing members will adopt the Euro now and makes no provision for dissent.
There at a stroke at the beginning of a document which on any reading has ended a thousand years of independence is the final nail in our coffin. We have lost our flag, our right to legislate for ourselves, to maintain the integrity of our own borders, to raise taxes and every other democratic right enjoyed by free countries and for which we have spilt our blood in two world wars. We now have a president not a prime minister.
Our embassies worldwide are at a stroke redundant. The spectre of a European Warrant rules our streets. We are ruled now by nameless, unelected Eurocrats who will increasingly and a rate far more frightening than that of the prolific law making of this present Government spew forth legislation and regulations and so rule from a foreign shore every aspect of our daily lives.
The reward of party failures will not be elevation to the House of Lords but rather a plum job with all perks in the European Commission. The Palace of Westminster and the Houses of Parliament will one day become a splendid tourist hotel no doubt reserving a suite or two for our European masters. We will think, speak and behave to the beat of a foreign drum and dream of glories past. In the words of Pastor Neimoller…is there any one out there who will speak up for us now?
David Kirwan
Prospective Independent MP for Wirral West
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I'm not sure where he's getting the stuff about the Euro. I think that's factually incorrect.
Lifted from the English version of the Lisbon treaty;
Article 2, paragraph 4
"4. The Union shall establish an economic and monetary union whose currency is the euro. "
It's a big document, so there is a lot most of us haven't read that may have a saving grace for the GBP, but I haven't come across it yet.
PROTOCOL (No 15)
ON CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
NORTHERN IRELAND
1. Unless the United Kingdom notifies the Council that it intends to adopt the euro, it shall be under
no obligation to do so.
3. The United Kingdom shall retain its powers in the field of monetary policy according to national
law.
So yet more scaremongering from a rabid eurosceptic who thinks EU policy jointly determined by elected heads of states, executed by named appointed commissioners and approved by directly elected MEPs equates to "We are ruled now by nameless, unelected Eurocrats".
This inaccurate and amateurish twaddle is what made me leave UKIP in the first place. Why don’t you just concentrate on real facts like excessive EU business regulation costs us 2% of our GDP and the CAP puts £20 a week on the average family’s food bill. The “Better Off Out” argument works much better on the doorstep than the hyperbole in this blog posting. As libertarians we should be espousing the return of all political, economic and social power to individuals from all the agencies of the state whether they are UK or EU institutions. The very few powers that do need to be exercised by the state should be enumerated in a constitution and should follow the principles of subsidiarity. This should not preclude the citizens from determining that powers should be exercised at a European level if they deem that to this is the most competent authority to do so. This is the EU’s biggest failing – omitting to get the mandate of the European peoples to exercise the powers at a European level in the first place.
The Union flag still flies in the UK, Alistair Darling still has the ability to tax us (see recent NI increase) and a quick look at the legislative timetable (http://services.parliament.uk/bills/) shows that we still have the power to legislate in a variety of area such as security, finance, education, energy, transport.
Not only is that obvious to me but it is also obvious to the general public who know full well the real political power is at Westminster - they aren't swayed by anti-Eu rhetoric unless you can prove it isn't good for jobs or their finances, which attacks the main reason they agreed.
to join the Common Market in the first place
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