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Eurealist :: Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution: “Conservative Party officially rejects British Constitution
by Eurealist at 05:15PM (BST) on April 14, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

The British Declaration of Independence

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for petitioning on the British Declaration of Independence website. Please use the BDI at the election. Challenge Tory, Labour, Liberal Democrat candidates to sign. Write to the local press saying you won’t vote for them unless they sign. How can we vote for those who cannot even accept that our Parliament makes our laws?

Conservative Party officially rejects

British Constitution and British Parliament

We talked to the Policy Unit at Conservative Central Office. CCO said that:

1. The Conservative Party rejects the British Declaration of Independence principally because of paragraph 2 - the right of the British Parliament to ‘initiate, pass and repeal laws applied to the British people’. That is unacceptable to the Tory Party. (In other words the Party rejects a Parliament and Democracy itself not only for Britain but for the whole of the European Union as well. ‘The Tory Party is committed to the treaties signed since 1972 which contradict paragraph 2 of the BDI’.
2. The Tory Party would NOT withdraw ‘from areas where the EU Court has jurisdiction over the United Kingdom’. It would request re-negotiation of specified areas –e.g. employment, immigration, international aid and fishing.
3. The policy he was stating had been decided by Michael Howard and the Shadow Cabinet. We asked if candidates had been told NOT to sign the BDI. He replied the policy was that candidates should not sign statements which are inconsistent with Conservative policy. We stated that the BDI was entirely consistent with “in Europe but not ruled by Europe”, a sovereign independent Britain in the European Union. They said they disagreed with the BDI because it meant “withdrawal from Europe”. But the BDI does not concern itself with Europe it concerns itself entirely with British Democracy.
Therefore the Conservative Party confirms that membership of the European Union has destroyed British Democracy and that the British Parliament was replaced in 1972 by a British Assembly. The British Conservative Party confirmed that this always was and remains their intention.
The Conservative Party rejects the British Constitution. They also reject the European Constitution. Therefore they believe in NO Constitution – which means unfettered control by the politicians.
Therefore the Tory Party refutes the British constitution, rejects the terms of the Oath of Allegiance, denies Britain a Parliament, rejects the 1966 UN Convention of the Self determination of peoples (a treaty which the British Government signed) and thereby disqualifies Britain as a sovereign nation from membership of the UN.

This confirms Michael Howard’s stance that, on being elected, he will request permission (of what he recognises as a superior power, the European Union) to govern in the United Kingdom and even then in only certain areas.

The Conservative Party has been forced to produce a new “form of words” designed to fool their candidates and the British people. The BDI, by demanding they sign up to their previous “form of words” (i.e. “In Europe but not ruled by Europe”), has forced them to refute those words.

The BDI is concerned solely with the sovereignty of the British people and the status of their Parliament as a forum in which their laws are made. Our concern is the British Constitution, not the European Union – or any other Union!

This has all come as a great shock to many Conservative candidates and voters. Those candidates who have signed the BDI regardless of party pressure deserve our unstinting support. We need to do everything we can to strengthen them in the party and encourage allies to join them.

Tell others about the BDI and the Petition. (You can sign up others if they have no computer and you have their post code and permission!)

The BDI is powerful - use it.

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By Ken
On April 14, 2005
At 4:24 pm
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2 Comments for this post

 
April 16th, 2005 at 1:58 pm

This is the final nail in the coffin for the Tories as far as I’m concerned. All that’s left is finding a party to vote for as a protest vote.

 
 
April 16th, 2005 at 2:11 pm

The point of the BDI is that we only vote for an MP who will sign it; this way the hope is to apply pressure to all persons standing. I cannot see the logic of voting for an MP who refuses to acknowledge that for them to be of any use in parliament, that parliament itself must have power, if the parliament does not have power then a monkey can do the job. Good luck with your hunt.

 

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