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Just to drive home the point made in the previous post, why is it that if the EU Constitution is not the basis of a European State the French need to change the French Constitution to make way for the EU Constituion?
ABC News: French Parliament Tackles EU Constitution
PARIS Feb 28, 2005 — France’s two chambers [...]

The Ten Commandments
The British government is alone in portraying the EU Constitution in the way that it does, a glance across the English Channel will reveal a totally different appraisal of the proposals….
Hans Martin Bury, the German Minister for Europe, said “I think, the EU Constitution is the birth certificate of the United States of [...]

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Clarke acts to head off terror revolt:
“Charles Clarke will this morning rush out a ‘clarification’ document on his new anti-terrorism proposals in a last-ditch attempt to head off an embarrassing rebellion in a Commons vote tonight.
But the home secretary’s decision only to put out a briefing note implies [...]

EU Referendum
The concept of the standard European driving license stems entirely from a report written by Italian MEP Pietro Adonnino, in 1985 for the Milan Council, entitled “A Peoples’ Europe”.
The whole purpose of the report was to recommend ways of developing a “European identity”, to which effect Adonnino came up with a number of ideas.
His [...]

A good argument against the assertion that we gain from EU Membership
Tim Worstall: The Economics of EU Membership.
The Economics of EU Membership.
EUPundit applies his rigorous logic to the question of the economic benefits of the UK’s membership of the European Union. Somewhat amusing really:
International economics - at its simplest understandable level - is trade. What [...]

The England Project: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “EU CONSTITUTION
‘Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union?’. That was the question put to the electorate in 2006 and 68% of voters said NO. So why is the government consistently abiding by every section, paragraph and sentence within the document? Why are [...]

German Europe Minister:
EU Constitution “is the birth certificate of the United States of Europe”. Hans Martin Bury, the German Minister for Europe, said in a debate in the Bundestag yesterday that, “This Constitution is, in spite of all justified calls for further regulations, a milestone. Yes, it is more than that.
I think, the EU [...]

We pay the costs they gain the benifits
I have seen several sites which claim that Britain does well out of its membership of the EU, not least BIE which is run for and on behalf of the big business brigade. Who of course feel that their best interests lie with EU Membership, but does the [...]

After arguing that the Government needs us all to carry ID cards to control Terrorist activity Charles Clarke, has admitted the truth that the real reason is so that it would make it easier for the Government to drop border controls.
Mr Clarke said a successful ID card system could change British opposition to Schengen, paving [...]

At a time when the fixed penalty system under attack because it assumes guilt before conviction, the British Government has now agreed that we peasants should no longer have protection from foreign countries fixed fine systems and will now actively assist other countries to collect their fixed fines.
Telegraph | News | New EU law means [...]

Patricia Hewitt, Mansion House Wednesday, 23 February, 2005
In the speech Hewitt claims “We listened very carefully to the views of business, trade unions and others before we negotiated the Constitution. We set out our objectives. And we achieved every one of them.”
With 275 amendments suggesting changes to the draft by the British government at [...]

Neil Herron: Will the Terrorism Bill ‘free’ the Metric Martyrs?
Neil Herron:Will the Terrorism Bill ‘free’ the Metric Martyrs?
Press Release: Immediate
Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
12 noon 24th February, 2005
” Will the Terrorism Bill ‘free’ the Metric Martyrs?”
The Government is trampling over the Rights and Liberties of the People…with an unforseen consequence.
Where can liberty turn?
Charles Clarke, a [...]

Tim Worstall does a good job undermining Tony’s confused arguments.
Tim Worstall
The Dear Leader on Liberty.
The Maximum Tone has spoken on the subject of Civil Liberties. Somewhat confused I fear:
I have absolutely no doubt about the main duty of any prime minister: it is to do everything possible to protect the security of our nation and [...]

The imperious thought process of Europhiles
According to Europhiles and the EU political system, we the people cannot be allowed democracy, because we would not know what to do with it, and would probably vote the wrong way. We do not understand what is good for us, so we must have a paternalistic government to make [...]

So the Bill of Rights is an ancient act that has no relevance? As it is still statue law, it can still be used to question the policies of government in our courts. Knowing this, when faced with the threat of this 1688/9 act government and local authorities tend to quietly back off, they do [...]

Times Online - Comment
Where can liberty turn? Charles Clarke is now to make lawful whatever he says is lawful
“NO FREEMAN shall be arrested or detained in prison or deprived of his freehold or outlawed or exiled or in any way molested . . . except by the lawful judgment of his peers.” Magna Carta, 1215.
It [...]

Mathew Green MP Ludlow
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA
16th February 2005
Dear Ken,
Regional Assemblies
Your letter expresses concern over the lack of democracy created by having unelected Regional Assemblies.
You are right to oppose the continued existence of unelected regional government.
Unelected regional government has existed in the UK for over 20 years. It was set up by the [...]

Bruno Kaufmann President of The Initiative & Referendum Institute - Europe’s Direct Democracy Think Tank
No other country in Europe has received as much financial assistance from EU taxpayers as Spain has since its accession back in 1986.
The Spaniards also said ‘yes’ to a new European Treaty, which in fact weakens the country’s voting right in [...]

The threat to the United Kingdom
Home Secretary Charles Clarke says Britain is facing a terrible threat. And he’s right — but the threat is not from terrorism, but from the government of which he is a member, which wishes to destroy all our civil liberties and abolish the rule of law.

Interesting poll results I still do not see the Tories winning
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Tories gain ground on Labour: “Tony Blair effectively launched Labour’s campaign a fortnight ago with his helicopter tour, the six pledges and the party’s spring conference. He even attempted to bypass the Westminster media with a special meet-the-voters [...]