UKIP Uncovered

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Wednesday, March 24, 2004

'How Not to Fight the EU'

The Daily Telegraph in its Leading Article this morning titled 'EU Constitution refuses to wither away' highlights the real dangers that euro-realists now face, namely - of being sidetracked by false promises from the conservatives. This is most vividly illustrated in the concluding paragraphs, quoted here, in italics with my comments interleaved in bold:-

Nevertheless, it is quite likely that a European Constitution Bill will be brought before Parliament this autumn. The Conservatives would oppose it, but they are not committed to repeal. It is, in any case, a moot point whether the courts might not regard the incorporation of the European Constitution as an irrevocable transfer of sovereignty.

The planned progress of the legislation was outlined in yesterday's Guardian linked here. The key sentence is of course the clear statement that the Conservatives are not committed to repeal it, which in my opinion clearly means they WILL NEVER DO SO. The concluding sentence makes no sense in this context and seems to have been inserted to deliberately confuse. The courts by then will be totally subject to European Control and will be entirely powerless to do anything other than the EU requires from enactment onwards.

For this and many other reasons, the House of Lords should be given time to consider all the constitutional implications. Even if its passage were slowed by scrutiny, the Government could force it through, albeit against convention, by invoking the Parliament Act.

What about a referendum? Labour and the Liberal Democrats will resist to the death any plebiscite on Europe, while the Tories won't promise a retrospective one. Various competing campaigns for a referendum have failed to coalesce.

The second paragraph is untrue. The Liberal Democrats support a referendum on the constitution (see conference report linked from here).

There are, however, European elections in June. The Government is determined that the constitution should not be an issue. If Michael Howard means business, he needs to turn the European election into a referendum on the constitution. Were he to succeed, the next general election could even turn on this issue. On Europe, Mr Howard really can speak for the country.

In view of everything stated by the Leader Writer up to this point, this conclusion is patent nonsense. But extremely dangerous nonsense, as it would deliver a huge conservative majority within the European Parliament, all of them manifestly opposed to any repeal of the constitution allowing the federalists full, final and complete victory.

The role for a repectable and upright eurosceptical party standing everywhere in the Euro elections on June 10th is what the Telegraph is arguing for, but then muddying the waters with its clearly ridiculous conclusion, hence, presumably the need for the lie about the Lib Dems as by telling the truth about that party's stance on a referendum it would be immediately obvious that Charle Kennedy could equally well make the case as speaking for the country as can Howard!

The tragedy of UKIP and their shameful leadership becomes daily more apparent as 10th June approaches. With today's leadership the party cannot hope to get any media support nor any principled vote. The Daily Telegraph, convoluting the truth and thereby diverting many eurosceptic votes towards the yet again secretly euro-enthusiastically led Conservative Party gives clear warning of how the EU constitution and resulting irrevocable total absorbtion of this country into the EU are about to be accomplished.

Ordinary UKIP members still tolerating the continuance in Office of the UKIP cabal are now becoming co-perpetrators with supposed eurosceptic Tory MPs and MEPs in the hand-over of their country!

posted by Martin |8:09 AM