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EU Referendum:

“There is a third way ”

Dr Richard North at his very best, completely undermining Denis Mac Shanes or as Dr North prefers with good reason, Mac Shames, EU Myths in the Telegraph.

“Thus, when MacShame rushes on to tell us that “British citizens cannot pick and choose which bits of law they will obey”, what he avoids saying is that if “British citizens” do not like particular bits of (national) law, they have the means to change them, not least though the mechanism of a general election, and not forgetting that civil disobedience is a time-honoured, and honourable, tradition.

But, within the construct of the European Union, the British citizen has – individually or collectively – no means of changing the law. The construct is deliberately “democracy proof” and therefore confounds the very system to which we subscribe. On that basis, we have a conflict between the “people”, who are not bound by the treaties, and the governments, which are”.

My only caveat is that the EU and our government are trying to make us the people also be bound by the treaties or at least the Constitution because as I have posted before it says in the Preamble

Grateful to the members of the European Convention for having prepared this Constitution on behalf of the citizens and States of Europe, [Who, having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:]

EU Referendum: “There is a third way “