WELL DONE ANNE

Long standing anti-EU anti-EU researcher, campaigner and good friend, Anne Palmer, had success getting a letter in the Daily Telegraph today 14th September 2010.

Her letter, along with that of others on the same subject, was used by the Telegraph in response to the latest meaningless Tory nonsense of having referendums on devolving more powers to the EU. As Anne points out, since the signing of the Lisbon Treaty the EU now has all the power, the only option left to this country if it really does value its freedom liberty and sovereignty is to quit the EU as soon as possible – but Dave Cameron’s pro-EU Tories will not offer that solution so they faff around with this trivia instead.

Read Anne’s letter, as she sent in full, below.
"The Conservatives promised a ‘referendum guarantee’ on all future transfers of power to Brussels. If a future government tries to transfer further competences from Britain to the EU, how can it do so when it has given away the authority of the Royal Prerogative to do so, to the European Union?

Article 47 (Lisbon) gives the EU as a whole "legal personality" so that the EU can ‘speak with one voice’ to ratify any future Treaties and Agreements on behalf of all 27 countries.

Here in the UK, the decision to fight wars or to ratify treaties, our Government by law has to use the Royal Prerogative on behalf of the British Crown.

The power of the Crown is held in trust by the executive and passed on to the next government. In ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon, Article 47 means our Government has handed over the Royal Prerogative to foreigners. Yet the power of the British Crown is the ultimate authority – or sovereignty – behind Parliament, so it is not in the power of the government to give away the Royal Prerogative to anyone – and certainly not to foreigners, it would be treason so to do.

By this action, has our Government, and also the Crown, been made subservient to the EU? Surely a treasonous act in itself? EU Treaties are designed to be permanent, so given that the EU is planning for the next 50 years, the gift of the Royal Prerogative is one which cannot be taken back for it is bound up in the Treaty of Lisbon. Either the Royal Prerogative remains out of any British Government’s reach because it is now in the hands of foreigners and the UK Government has no power to alter, accept, ratify, etc any further Agreement or Treaty or new legislation, plus in the process of giving it to the EU in a Treaty has removed all further power from the British Crown? Without the Royal Prerogative no legislation re Treaties or Agreement can be lawful/legally accepted here in the UK. Perhaps even the Treaty of Lisbon has no effect here in the UK either, for once out of UK government’s hands nothing in that Treaty can take effect? Which under the Common Law Constitution of the United Kingdom is it? I have no doubt many millions of people in this Country would like to know the answer too."

Well done Anne, an excellent point why EU membership is so wrong.