HELP TO PREVENT THE NATION THAT BUILT THE WORLD'S GREATEST EMPIRE TO BE ERASED OFF THE MAP BY SOME SWEATY OIK IN BRUSSELS
In 2005, the French and the Dutch people voted AGAINST the EU ConstituTion, meaning that it CANNOT now be forced upON any other EU state.
But what does the undemocratic EUSSR now do? Change its name from a constitution to a "treaty", meaning that EU states don't have to give their people the power to vote on whether or not they want it. Instead, it's being introduced stealthily, through the back door, regardless of the fact that the French and Dutch people have already voted AGAINST it.
All this is led, of course, by the German leader Angela Merkel. It seems as if the Germans are still struggling to understand DEMOCRACY even when it jumps up and bites them on the arse.....
Seven days to save Britain
Selling out ... Tony Blair
By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
Political Editor
JUNE 15, 2007
The Sun
THE Sun today urges its army of readers to tell Tony Blair he has just seven days to stop a surrender of British power to Brussels.
The PM is preparing to back an EU Treaty — really a revamped EU constitution by the back door — in his last act as British leader.
And he has ruled OUT a referendum of the British people to get their permission.
Today The Sun urges every reader to take part in our own referendum to have their say.
We will give you the chance to vote on the treaty every day for a week.
CLICK HERE TO VORE FOR OR AGAINST THE EU CONSTITUTION - http://extras.thesun.co.uk/php/vote/2007/euconst/eu.php
(CURRENT RESULT -
Should Tony Blair support the new EU Treaty?
YES - 162
NO - 2811
The treaty will mean a giant giveaway of UK power.
Our voting power will be slashed by 30 per cent — making it impossible to block barmy EU rules.
The move is a threat to British heritage and our way of life.
Mr Blair will agree to the “shabby” stitch-up a week today in Brussels.
The PM told MPs on Wednesday he won’t surrender any British power.
But last night the architect of the rejected EU constitution confirmed the whole exercise is a giant CON.
Former French PM Valery Giscard d’Estaing admitted EU leaders are HOODWINKING 450million Europeans into thinking the treaty is a fresh deal with no significance.
He told French daily Le Monde: “Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly.”
He even says ministers and officials are “camouflaging” the truth behind the treaty.
And he demands the European anthem, flag and motto should be enshrined in next week’s treaty, too.
Germany is pushing hard for a new treaty which includes many of the measures in the hated EU constitution.
Its leader Angela Merkel has admitted the treaty will be virtually a carbon copy of the constitution.
And she is plotting to pull the wool over voters’ eyes by calling it a different name.
The constitution was dumped two years ago when millions of French and Dutch voters rejected it.
Now critics fear Mr Blair is poised to accept the most damaging elements of it by the back door.
Next week he and 26 other EU leaders will set it in stone.
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It will include:
A PERMANENT EU President with 3,500 staff.
UNELECTED European judges getting unprecedented powers to set UK law.
BRITAIN surrendering its seat on the UN Security Council.
AN EU foreign minister representing the UK on international issues.
SLASHING Britain’s voting powers by a THIRD.
GIVING UP for good Britain’s hard-won veto on EU directives.
BOWING to EU laws on criminal justice and policing.
A RAFT of job-destroying shopfloor laws.
DESTROYING the City’s reputation as the world’s greatest money market.
HANDING the European Commission the power to meddle in any part of British laws it chooses.
Mr Blair has RULED OUT giving the people a referendum on the treaty he agrees to in Brussels next week.
He had promised a national vote on an EU constitution two years ago.
But he has now declared there is no need for one on a treaty because it will contain fewer powers.
Last night Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “If Tony Blair thinks he can hoodwink the British people by smuggling in the rejected EU constitution under another name after back-room deals he had better think again.
“He underestimates the British people. They will see right through any shabby stitch-up.
“They will not thank Tony Blair if his final legacy is a cheap deal that damages Britain’s independence.
“And they will see that Gordon Brown is just more of the same if he goes along with it.
Labour MPs must remember that they were elected on a manifesto that promised a referendum on that constitution.
“They have absolutely no democratic mandate to bring parts of it back without British people’s permission.
“If the Labour Government sign up to a new Treaty that takes powers from Britain and hands them over to the EU the British people must have the final say in a referendum.
“We will fight for the people’s right to decide.”
Downing Street insists there is no sell-out under way.
Gordon Brown and Mr Blair will hold talks with French President Nikolas Sarkozy on Monday.
It will give the PM-in-waiting a crucial say in what is agreed later that week in Brussels.
Ministers and officials have been thrashing out details of the draft in secret for months.
Chancellor Merkel wrote to EU leaders saying she wanted “to use different terminology without changing the legal substance” of the rejected constitution.
Watering down Britain’s VOTING RIGHTS by 30 per cent will have huge consequences. It will mean a maximum 48-hour working week forced on everyone in Britain.
No one will be able to put in overtime to bump up their wages.
Trade Department studies show Britain’s economy is £9billion a year better off because we rejected the 48-hour rule.
Foreign police will be able to operate on British soil.
Temporary workers would get the same rights as permanent staff.
This would add crippling costs on to small firms who rely on seasonal staff. The City would be saddled with laws making them far less competitive.
Britain’s VETO on a range of areas is up for grabs. Losing it would mean the UK being forced to accept a raft of laws made by unelected officials in Brussels.
A CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS would mean huge powers for the European Court of Justice to set UK law.
For the first time, the Commission will be able to take Britain to the European Court of Justice if it disagreed with our laws.
IMMIGRATION would also be affected by the EU’s demands to get rid of our veto.
The EU is putting together a common European immigration policy.
It wants to strip Britain and other EU countries of their right to set their own entry requirements.
Mr Blair has so far insisted he would never surrender that right.
But experts fear Britain’s weakened voting powers would destroy our ability to block an EU push for a common policy.
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By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
WHO do they think they are kidding?
Tony Blair keeps telling us the EU cannot go on without a new Treaty.
European leaders warn of “catastrophe” and “disaster” if they cannot agree a new deal.
They say a new treaty must be drawn up to ensure that its 27 member countries can do business.
What nonsense!
What a con trick!
The EU is not, by any means, perfect.
But it has been working more smoothly since the EU constitution was rightly dumped two years ago.
The treaty is a celebration of the vanity of Europe’s political elite.
They are utterly out of touch.
They are utterly self-obsessed.
And they couldn’t care less about what actually matters to hard-working voters.
The new treaty is everything the constitution was.
Astonishingly, the British Prime Minister is going along with this fraud.
The PM will undoubtedly come home claiming he has blocked moves to an EU superstate.
He’ll “save” Britain’s opt-out on justice and policing.
And he may even block an EU foreign minister.
But it’s what he’ll have to concede in return that’s at stake.
There is no doubt he will have to surrender swathes of British power if a deal is to be done next week.
Two years ago EU leaders made no secret of what they were up to.
They published drafts of the EU constitution for all to study.
What a disaster that was.
Now they’re trying to push through the same measures by secrecy and stealth.
Mr Blair has ruled OUT a referendum in the UK.
But Gordon Brown will soon be Premier — and he will have to answer to people power.
thesun.co.uk
In 2005, the French and the Dutch people voted AGAINST the EU ConstituTion, meaning that it CANNOT now be forced upON any other EU state.
But what does the undemocratic EUSSR now do? Change its name from a constitution to a "treaty", meaning that EU states don't have to give their people the power to vote on whether or not they want it. Instead, it's being introduced stealthily, through the back door, regardless of the fact that the French and Dutch people have already voted AGAINST it.
All this is led, of course, by the German leader Angela Merkel. It seems as if the Germans are still struggling to understand DEMOCRACY even when it jumps up and bites them on the arse.....
Seven days to save Britain
Selling out ... Tony Blair
By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
Political Editor
JUNE 15, 2007
The Sun
THE Sun today urges its army of readers to tell Tony Blair he has just seven days to stop a surrender of British power to Brussels.
The PM is preparing to back an EU Treaty — really a revamped EU constitution by the back door — in his last act as British leader.
And he has ruled OUT a referendum of the British people to get their permission.
Today The Sun urges every reader to take part in our own referendum to have their say.
We will give you the chance to vote on the treaty every day for a week.
CLICK HERE TO VORE FOR OR AGAINST THE EU CONSTITUTION - http://extras.thesun.co.uk/php/vote/2007/euconst/eu.php
(CURRENT RESULT -
Should Tony Blair support the new EU Treaty?
YES - 162
NO - 2811
The treaty will mean a giant giveaway of UK power.
Our voting power will be slashed by 30 per cent — making it impossible to block barmy EU rules.
The move is a threat to British heritage and our way of life.
Mr Blair will agree to the “shabby” stitch-up a week today in Brussels.
The PM told MPs on Wednesday he won’t surrender any British power.
But last night the architect of the rejected EU constitution confirmed the whole exercise is a giant CON.
Former French PM Valery Giscard d’Estaing admitted EU leaders are HOODWINKING 450million Europeans into thinking the treaty is a fresh deal with no significance.
He told French daily Le Monde: “Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly.”
He even says ministers and officials are “camouflaging” the truth behind the treaty.
And he demands the European anthem, flag and motto should be enshrined in next week’s treaty, too.
Germany is pushing hard for a new treaty which includes many of the measures in the hated EU constitution.
Its leader Angela Merkel has admitted the treaty will be virtually a carbon copy of the constitution.
And she is plotting to pull the wool over voters’ eyes by calling it a different name.
The constitution was dumped two years ago when millions of French and Dutch voters rejected it.
Now critics fear Mr Blair is poised to accept the most damaging elements of it by the back door.
Next week he and 26 other EU leaders will set it in stone.
Made in Britain ... (l-r) Nelson, old-fashioned pint, Queen, fish and chips, F1 ace Hamilton, The Sun and Churchill
It will include:
A PERMANENT EU President with 3,500 staff.
UNELECTED European judges getting unprecedented powers to set UK law.
BRITAIN surrendering its seat on the UN Security Council.
AN EU foreign minister representing the UK on international issues.
SLASHING Britain’s voting powers by a THIRD.
GIVING UP for good Britain’s hard-won veto on EU directives.
BOWING to EU laws on criminal justice and policing.
A RAFT of job-destroying shopfloor laws.
DESTROYING the City’s reputation as the world’s greatest money market.
HANDING the European Commission the power to meddle in any part of British laws it chooses.
Mr Blair has RULED OUT giving the people a referendum on the treaty he agrees to in Brussels next week.
He had promised a national vote on an EU constitution two years ago.
But he has now declared there is no need for one on a treaty because it will contain fewer powers.
Last night Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “If Tony Blair thinks he can hoodwink the British people by smuggling in the rejected EU constitution under another name after back-room deals he had better think again.
“They will not thank Tony Blair if his final legacy is a cheap deal that damages Britain’s independence.
“And they will see that Gordon Brown is just more of the same if he goes along with it.
Labour MPs must remember that they were elected on a manifesto that promised a referendum on that constitution.
“They have absolutely no democratic mandate to bring parts of it back without British people’s permission.
“If the Labour Government sign up to a new Treaty that takes powers from Britain and hands them over to the EU the British people must have the final say in a referendum.
“We will fight for the people’s right to decide.”
Downing Street insists there is no sell-out under way.
Gordon Brown and Mr Blair will hold talks with French President Nikolas Sarkozy on Monday.
It will give the PM-in-waiting a crucial say in what is agreed later that week in Brussels.
Ministers and officials have been thrashing out details of the draft in secret for months.
Chancellor Merkel wrote to EU leaders saying she wanted “to use different terminology without changing the legal substance” of the rejected constitution.
Watering down Britain’s VOTING RIGHTS by 30 per cent will have huge consequences. It will mean a maximum 48-hour working week forced on everyone in Britain.
No one will be able to put in overtime to bump up their wages.
Trade Department studies show Britain’s economy is £9billion a year better off because we rejected the 48-hour rule.
Foreign police will be able to operate on British soil.
Temporary workers would get the same rights as permanent staff.
This would add crippling costs on to small firms who rely on seasonal staff. The City would be saddled with laws making them far less competitive.
Britain’s VETO on a range of areas is up for grabs. Losing it would mean the UK being forced to accept a raft of laws made by unelected officials in Brussels.
A CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS would mean huge powers for the European Court of Justice to set UK law.
For the first time, the Commission will be able to take Britain to the European Court of Justice if it disagreed with our laws.
IMMIGRATION would also be affected by the EU’s demands to get rid of our veto.
The EU is putting together a common European immigration policy.
It wants to strip Britain and other EU countries of their right to set their own entry requirements.
Mr Blair has so far insisted he would never surrender that right.
But experts fear Britain’s weakened voting powers would destroy our ability to block an EU push for a common policy.
**********************************
PM must go along with fraud
COMMENTARYBy GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
WHO do they think they are kidding?
Tony Blair keeps telling us the EU cannot go on without a new Treaty.
European leaders warn of “catastrophe” and “disaster” if they cannot agree a new deal.
They say a new treaty must be drawn up to ensure that its 27 member countries can do business.
What nonsense!
What a con trick!
The EU is not, by any means, perfect.
But it has been working more smoothly since the EU constitution was rightly dumped two years ago.
The treaty is a celebration of the vanity of Europe’s political elite.
They are utterly out of touch.
They are utterly self-obsessed.
And they couldn’t care less about what actually matters to hard-working voters.
The new treaty is everything the constitution was.
Astonishingly, the British Prime Minister is going along with this fraud.
The PM will undoubtedly come home claiming he has blocked moves to an EU superstate.
He’ll “save” Britain’s opt-out on justice and policing.
And he may even block an EU foreign minister.
But it’s what he’ll have to concede in return that’s at stake.
There is no doubt he will have to surrender swathes of British power if a deal is to be done next week.
Two years ago EU leaders made no secret of what they were up to.
They published drafts of the EU constitution for all to study.
What a disaster that was.
Now they’re trying to push through the same measures by secrecy and stealth.
Mr Blair has ruled OUT a referendum in the UK.
But Gordon Brown will soon be Premier — and he will have to answer to people power.
thesun.co.uk