The Raving Corbett
Attempts to revive EU constitution
Sir: Richard Corbett MEP (Letters, 10 February) makes great play of the fact that 18 EU member-states have ratified the EU Constitution. He does not mention that most of those countries would have rejected it, had it been put to a referendum. Nor does he recall that it was not eurosceptics, but passionate supporters of the EU project who drafted the Constitution, and they chose to make it conditional upon all member-states ratifying it.
It is therefore quite right for sceptics to point out that two founding member-states of the EU,
ROGER HELMER MEP
(CONSERVATIVE,
Sir: Richard Corbett MEP is right. Even a tiddly-winks club, let alone a union of 27 nations, must have a set of rules - call them a constitution - to define its character.
Such rules must not be set in stone, though. They must be capable of being revised in the light of changing circumstances to avoid perpetuation of such aberrations as the CAP, which was steamrollered by
In the world of rapidly evolving globalisation, we must secure political and economic synergies which, in our case, the EU alone can offer. However, this does imply a degree of shared sovereignty.
JOHN ROMER
"Even a tiddly-winks club … must have a set of rules" - but not rules which have primacy over national law, including constitutional law, and I’ve yet to come across a tiddly-winks club which issues its own currency, wants its own army, and aspires to a seat on the UN Security Council.
No point in my writing as I’ve already done so twice without success, so I won’t, but if anybody else wants to have a go it’s letters@independent.co.uk . Short is best - even Roger Helmer
has only been allowed about 140 words.
http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article2278073.ece
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