The EU must be made to listen to our concerns
The opinion in the Telegraph makes the depressing but accurate point that those who believe a
One thing that the EU has allowed us to do is to vote for any party with impunity because all parties will have to toe the EU line, there is very little to choose between them.
possible No vote in Ireland this coming week will put a stop to the EU juggernaut have clearly not been paying attention over the past 30 years.
The European Commission says there is no “Plan B”, but the truth is that the EU will simply steam on its merry way towards the creation of a superstate, the “ever-closer Union” of the Treaty of Rome, whatever its people want.
Notwithstanding the headline, the Telegraph actually makes no suggestion on how we can make the EU listen to our concerns, which is not particularly surprising as the EU was specifically designed as a private political elitists club to omit the people from the process of integration, and to insulate the EU system of integration from interference by the voters, thus the EU elites only talk to and only listen to themselves.
Should Ireland vote no this week the EU elites will decide amongst themselves what caused this misunderstanding, they will create an answer that meets with their approval and then move on as if nothing had happened.
This then becomes an internal matter for the Irish to sort out, it is after all their constitution which is creating the problem in the first place by having the effrontery to demand public support for change. This of course ties the hands of the Irish government, because it simply cannot just agree to anything it wishes in the EU without balancing the Irish Constitution.
Perhaps we are not making enough of the fact of the Irish referendum, given the point that the Lisbon treaty does change the Irish constitution hence the need for a referendum to gather public support. Does it also not equally impact on our constitution I believe it must, which gives the lie to Gordon’s Brown position that it is not important enough for a referendum. The question then we must ask is do we really believe that it should be left entirely in the hands of the few elites to determine the constitution of this country and then use parliamentary power to force it thought the system, whilst at the same time claiming it is not an important issue.
As it is impossible to affect chance at the EU level it must surely point us to the fact that we must apply pressure where we can, and the only place where that is possible is through our own political parties. Individually we can only affect the election of one member of our own parliament, in order to convince the leadership of the party that there own interest lay in listening to our concerns, if they fail to do so we intend to hold them to account by voting against their candidate.
In my case this will mean voting against and trying to unseat a Conservative MP who has voted the right way on all the EU issues in this parliament, but as EU Referendum points out David Cameron is now backtracking on a commitment to do something about the Lisbon Treaty if it has been ratified by the time the Conservatives are voted into power.
So really as Cameron is already preparing the ground for another Conservative EU cave in, voting for one member of his party even though his past record indicates good will on EU matters, will have little overall effect on Conservative policy. For all the posturing of the Mr Redwoods and the voting record of Mr Phillip Dunne in the party, they are not the ones who will be making in the running in Dave’s Cabinet.
One thing that the EU has allowed us to do is to vote for any party with impunity because all parties will have to toe the EU line, there is very little to choose between them. So instead of voting for Mr Dunne who is Eusceptic by his record, I will probably vote for the LibDem Candidate who in Ludlow has the best chance of unseating Mr Dunne. I hope I can persuade enough people to join me in my personal revolt and I hope that the message gets through to Mr Cameron that he stands the chance of loosing at least one sitting MP because of his stance on the Lisbon treaty.
As the Conservatives under Cameron have lead the opposition to the Lisbon Treaty because they say it is unacceptable to this country, then it seems craven to now say we will have to accept it if it has been ratified, especially as he also says he would ask -ask mind you - to be allowed to take back some powers in one or two areas from the EU, we all know what the answer will be to that request, I wonder why Mr Cameron does not and I wonder why the Lisbon treaty that was so unacceptable suddenly becomes acceptable after it has been ratified.
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