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Some Conservatives are at last beginning to get the message, that the way back into power in not to offer a pale imitation of NU-Labour but to return to basic Conservative policies and to ground those in the national interest founded on self-government and the supremacy of the British Parliament duly elected by the British people.
The letter in the Telegraph continues;

“This is no abstract principle. It is the only firm base from which we can address the growing crisis facing our country. The crisis of soaring public spending and rising debt. Of national liability for future pensions, welfare and health provision outstripping our future ability to meet it. Of business being increasingly strangled by taxation, over-regulation, rising energy costs and restrictions on trade. Of climate change. Of violent crime. Of educational standards dropping while truancy runs out of control.

That crisis is exacerbated by the run-down of our armed forces and the Euro-federalist undermining of Nato. International terrorism and weapons proliferation combined with international poverty, economic failure and corrupt regimes are now the new ‘Cold War’.

We need resolute action, but we have lost control of the means of achieving it. Our system of government has become over centralised, Parliament has lost influence, our civil service politicised and our national powers of decision-making drained by an overweening European political and legal system.
These issues cannot continue to be sidestepped by leadership aspirants.

It is the inalienable duty of a Conservative government to uphold the national interest. National security and independence; freedom and public safety; economic stability and prosperity, adequately helping those in need; a foreign policy by alliance, not subservience; a constitution which provides for the freedom and sovereignty of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary, the rule of law, the decentralisation of power and increased direct democracy; excellence and efficiency in public services delivered and run locally; concern and toleration for others and with the family at the heart of social responsibility.

These are the principles to which the new Conservative leader must be unambiguously committed, along with the restoration of the supremacy of Parliament.

The duty of Government to protect people and their rights is fatally damaged when lawmaking is placed in the hands of others than our duly elected Parliament. Respect for the law is crucially undermined when laws are made not by people we elect and can remove but by EU institutions that we do not elect and cannot remove. The supremacy of our Parliament must be enshrined so that our judges must give effect to its legislation irrespective of earlier Treaties or Conventions. This will mean either successfully renegotiating EU Treaties to conform to these principles or seeking a different relationship with Europe, in each case specifically affirmed by referendum.

Upholding freedom while preserving public safety is another fundamental principle for a new leader. Fear of violent crime and terrorism undermines freedom. Government must protect the citizen from both, but not at the cost of surrendering historic civil rights. The path between leniency towards potential criminals or terrorists on the one hand and authoritarianism and the ‘big brother state’ on the other is a narrow one. Our Common Law in conjunction with the judgements of our sovereign parliament, rather than international conventions, should be the pathfinder. The Human Rights Act 1998 should be repealed and our endorsement of the ECHR reviewed.

In the modern world the defence of our nation requires alliances. Alliances such as Nato, however, are one thing - subservience another. In Europe Britain has progressively lost its independence of action in foreign affairs, international trade and defence. The new leader must be prepared to repudiate any security arrangements that undermine the integrity of Nato as the cornerstone of our security.”

Eureferendum has a post commenting on the letter and the (Telegraph Print Edition) headline story on the Tory leadership is “a challenge to the Tory leadership to give a commitment to renegotiate membership of the EU and repeal the Human Rights Act”.

The letter is signed by nine Consevative MP`s but nine is a start, at lease they are pointing in the right direction although they do not go far enough, but when we can again control our own lawmakers, we can begin to think about making it impossible for internationalist to ever again destroy the British constitution by the simple technique of ignoring that it exists.