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The Offensive Jack Straw 11

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw attacked the Conservatives’ position on Europe on Tuesday, saying its policy of rejecting the treaty with a view to renegotiating it was “fantasy”.

“Claiming that Britain can accept the bits of being an EU member it likes, and withdraw from all the others, is not a serious policy,” he told a news conference.

Well actually Jack Straw is wrong; the British government has the power to agree or not to agree with demands from the EU or the other states to pass more power to the Union and therby give up its own authority. Straw himself has confirmed this Tuesday in the FCO fact sheet? Myth Three: ‘Primacy’ means that the EU controls our laws”, in which the FCO argues against the supposed Eusceptics claim ‘Primacy’ means that the EU controls our laws “These rules aren’t inflicted on us – we help write them”.

Without the willing compliance of British governments with the ongoing EU internationalists agenda, the British government and the British Parliament would still retain the powers it had in 1973.

Apart from that the primacy of EU law has never been in any of the EU treaties and has been rejected by other member states as such the argument that it creates a level playing field is nonsense.

For a full response to this particular claim from the FCO see EU Referendum