Tossing Away the Veto on Justice and Home Affairs
September 13, 2006 by Ken
Filed under The British Constitution
THE spin machine is playing the resignation of Hartlepool MP Iain Wright as a matter of principle. This might be true, but the principle has more to do with his political career than with the best interests of the people of Hartlepool.
Not a single Member of Parliament, including Mr Wright, has enough principles to speak up in defence of the British system of law, our police and court procedures.
On September 22, Home Secretary John Reid, (the same man who guaranteed the future of Hartlepool hospital during the 2004 by-election and whose word has evidently not been honoured (otherwise why did Mr Wright feel he has to resign?) will attend a meeting of European Union Justice Ministers to discuss abolition of the national veto on “Justice and Home Affairs”.
The EU would acquire the power to determine who shall be put in prison, what judicial process would be applied, impose changes to our laws and our police and court procedures, regardless of our wishes. The UK Government has just nine per cent of the votes on this particular committee and has already accepted the imposition of the European Arrest Warrant, under which British subjects may be arrested, shipped over to Europe, tried and imprisoned for something which might not even be a crime in the UK.
When will the people of this country say the enough is enough? Eight out of ten laws in the UK now originate in Brussels.
We’d be better off out.
– Stephen Allison, UKIP Councillor, Hartlepool Borough Council.
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