Jon wrote:
I suspect what Cameron says in public and what he says in private are very different.
I agree Jon, we mustn't forget that Dave comes from a marketing background where smooth presentation and lies are stock-in-trade.
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David Cameron back-tracks on pledge to hold a referendum on Europe.
05/11/09
David Cameron back-tracks on pledge to hold a referendum on Europe.
Yesterday David Cameron announced his party’s policy on Europe and whether or not that would include fulfilling an earlier promise that he would put the Lisbon Treaty before the British public in a referendum was clearly absent. Back-tracking on this pledge David Cameron claims that with the Lisbon Treaty now being law it would not be possible to hold a referendum. Instead, he would renegotiate on areas where the UK has already given power to Brussels, such as areas of social and employment legislation, negotiating on the Working Time Directive, the criminal justice system, and a complete opt-out from the EU’s Charter on Fundamental Rights.
Haven't we been here before? Does Dave really think we'll believe his weasel words?
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For most academics and lawyers, the Lisbon Treaty is the treaty that transfers full sovereignty over to Brussels. So for David Cameron to promise that “never again” would power be passed to the EU, without a referendum is tantamount to trying to deceive the British public. For precisely what powers are there left to be transferred now that the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified by all Member States? Roger Helmer, MEP is quoted as saying that it is rather like trying to rescue the family silver after it had been sold off!
The fact is the Lisbon Treaty was the final move towards a supranational state with new powers over foreign policy, justice and home affairs being vested in the European Union.
Article 1 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), as amended by the Lisbon Treaty, abolishes the European Community which the UK joined when the Conservative Government (led by the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath) signed the Treaty of Accession on 22 January 1972, and transfers all of its powers and institutions to the new post-Lisbon Union.
This EU has been given its own legal personality for the first time under Article 47, which makes it constitutionally separate from, and superior to, its 27 Member States. Post-Lisbon, it is this new European Union and not the European Community which is responsible for the increasingly large numbers of new laws we must obey each year.
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