eurealist.co.uk

7.12.2004

Dear Home Secretary

The proposed ID Card and the EU Constitution.

Having taken the trouble to follow the “Treaty ESTABLISHING a Constitution for Europe” and the proposals for the NATIONAL Identity Card Scheme, I put forward part of my objections to both here.

It has been suggested that the ID Card might initially cost each member of the public about £85 for each card, a card which, and I quote “remains the property of the person issuing it”. We have to notify any changes affecting the accuracy of the Register, and it seems that the treasury must not be out of pocket by any of these changes. Woe betide any of us if we get anything wrong but for some that have lived here there and everywhere, I hope they have a good memory. An individual that contravenes a requirement imposed on him/her shall be liable to a civil penalty not exceeding £1000.

There is reference to Driving Licences in the proposals and as these (National) driving licences bear the EU’s Ring of Stars, it rather looks as if, even though classed as a “National” Identity Card and bearing in mind that the ID scheme may be applicable to all Member States of the EU, the same emblem that is on our driving licences may be used on the Identity Card. (It has been confirmed this year by the Identity Cards Programme Team that it “is likely” to be the same) This of course could not then be classed as a TRUE identity of a British person carrying or showing it to any official authority. It would fall foul of a TRUE description before it had even got off the ground.

The second and perhaps more important point I make, having read the final, final EU Constitution, a Constitution that would be incorporated into our system via the “Treaty”, for once installed, the Constitution would then take over in the same way that the Treaty of Rome was incorporated into our law, where we, as the years went by, learned to our cost, the direct effect and the supremacy of Community Law.

The EU Constitution, in spite of all the rhetoric to the opposite told to the people, will have untold consequences for this country of ours and all the people in it. Yet you, as a Government of this Country would accept this? A Government, according to my dictionary, is for the governing of a state, just incorporating laws made by others, is not ‘governing’.

There is no doubt what so ever, that the United Kingdom has come to a “cross roads” as far as remaining in the European Union is concerned. As an alleged independent Nation State, Britain cannot adopt/incorporate/accept an EU constitution. The EU constitution and the UK Constitutions are incompatible with each other. As a sovereign Nation, we can never allow ourselves to be subservient to another, and that, according to the EU constitution is what we would be if the EU Constitution was ratified. No country can have two conflicting Constitutions and be true to both.

We have seen in recent years, legislation made by this Government that has totally ignored the Constitution of this great Country, in fact this Government has quite deliberately gone against it in its efforts to further closer and deeper integration into the European Union. An action which, even as an all powerful Government, it would not be able to alter one dot or comma of the EU Constitution it proposing to incorporate as this Country’s own. (It is a constitution for all 25 states).

The people have a duty to defend their Common Law Constitution, they, as subjects of the Crown, are by Oath of Allegiance sworn to defend their constitution and their Country. This is what I am doing today. The people of this Country have defended to the death this Country from being governed by another, twice in living memory. I am appalled at some of the clauses in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill and to the extent that this Government will go to (Clause 30) on the Mutual Assistant in Criminal Matters between the Member States of the European Union. Do you really think there will be no outcry when foreign nationals arrest British people here in the UK? That foreign police will be able to instigate an arrest and whisk a person off to languish in a foreign prison while investigations are completed, that there will be no outcry? Were lessons not learnt re the ‘plane spotters? (See our Constitution as to legality, a constitution that should be obeyed by all.)

One cannot help feeling that this Government believes that all 58 million people in this country are criminals and so should be treated as such. In spite of the incorporation into our law the Convention on Human Rights, the declaration re The EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, we appear to have lost more Rights and Freedoms under this Government than ever before.

There is no doubt what so ever that we will soon have to extricate ourselves from the European Union. We cannot, as an alleged sovereign independent Country, subject ourselves to any further integration into the Union, and having read the contents of the Identity Cards Bill and what the Secretary of State may do, “without the individual’s consent” realise that if every person in the Country actually read the contents of that document together with the contents of what is proposed in SOCA, there would be a mass abstention from any proceedings that would help the formation of any Identity Scheme in this country.

All this power given to this Government, and all we did was to place a tiny cross on a bit of paper. No wonder people do not bother to vote.

Yours faithfully,

Anne Palmer.

As this concerns our Constitution, this is an open letter. A copy of this letter will be forwarded to the people mentioned on the front of the Identity Card Bill and their opposite numbers (if any) in the Official Opposition Party.