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Europhiles Do Not Believe in Democracy

The EU Big Bash as reported elsewhere was interrupted by about 100 anti Constitution MEP`s who carried placards saying “Not in my name”

According to the Telegraph the “Eurosceptic group said it was protesting at the use of £230,000 of taxpayers’ money on a “lavish party” in Strasbourg to launch the constitution and promote a Yes campaign.”

“It is perhaps a little premature - to say nothing of distasteful - for the champions of this grandiose scheme to be quaffing champagne before the people of Europe have had their say,” said the North-East Conservative MEP Martin Callanan.

But the Cheshire/Merseyside Liberal Democrat Chris Davies was clear about the reasons for the “Big Spend” which he made clear when he said “How far does £238,000 go in informing 455 million people? Five pence per person over two years is a fraction of the daily cost of the newspapers that force-feed the British people a diet of nonsense about the EU,”

The party was to celebrate the fact that two totally committed EU MEP`s produced a totally one sided report on the Constitution, that was then accepted by the majority of the other totally committed MEP`s. But the fact is that the EU parliament has no place in this debate at all, it is up to the member states to decide if they wish to pass more powers to the EU intuitions they are the members of the union not the MEPs` which are part of the union government structure so their vote has absolutely no meaning whatsoever.

All of this before even one single member of the EU public which are going to be allowed, have even cast a vote on the constitution. At the same time the Eurocrats are moving ahead with as many parts of the constitution as they can get away with before any state has placed their documents of ratification which requires all 25 to do so before the EU has the legal authority to take these moves. To even suggest that this is democratic is to fly in the face of all reason.

So these Europhiles do not believe in democracy, and why should they be expected too, it is after all, the EU that keeps them in the style they believe they are entitled to. All they have to do vote the way they are told and all will be well “Democracy in the European Parliament only works if you say yes all the time,” said Conservative MEP Chris Heaton-Harris, who represents the East Midlands. Well that is a strange interpretation of democracy, but is true of the EU system which has been purposefully designed to deny the people a voice in their own government, and arranges everything in order to keep that voice silent.

Yet when they decide they want to take more power than the treaties allow and want to force their constitution on all the people of Europe, they firstly encourage all the governments to ignore their own people and ratify without a popular mandate, when it is evident that the EU constitution will conflict with some state constitutions which require those states to consult the people. They do everything they can to undermine the people’s rights, and then complain if some of us have the temerity to stand up and say we do not want them to become our government. A Constitution is an agreement between the people and their government, it sets out the rules for that Government and gives that government the authority to act for the people.

Without the Constitution they have no democratic mandate, all these people are attempting is to manipulate the result, that in it-self should warn us all that this system of government is unacceptable to any democratic person.

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By Ken
On January 13, 2005
At 10:58 am
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