EU Treaty ratified
UK people ratted on!
So that’s it then, Parliament has ratified the treaty and it just awaits Royal Assent, despite the fact that it’s a dead dog. Europe, supposedly, cannot go ahead with further integration and the taking of more sovereign powers without the unanimous ratification of all 27 member states. The Irish have firmly voted against it, but the bumbling bureaucrats in Brussels and beyond seem to think that if every other state ratifies it, without asking it’s people, they will find a way around this inconvenient little rule that they passed. Hence the feeling that this Labour government has ratted not only on it’s own people in the UK, but also on the Irish, who could yet be made to vote again or be simply ignored. The contempt that I feel for these processes is impalpable.
Of course, certain of our Parliamentarians have much to gain and lose at the behest of the EU, as disclosed by Mr. Eugenides in his post illustrating yesterday’s debate in the House of Lords;
There were all sorts of weaselly justifications emanating from the Government this week as to why it was necessary to do so even though the Treaty is – supposedly – legally dead, but I strongly feel that some sort of award should be given to Neil Kinnock for this quite superb piece of mental gymnastics in the Lords debate yesterday:
Lord Kinnock: I put to him [Lord Owen] the dilemma that many face regarding how best the United Kingdom can assist our neighbour in the current situation. Is it not better that the treaty is ratified by the United Kingdom Parliament, so putting us in a very strong position to safeguard the interests of Ireland, rather than to put ourselves on the sidelines and thereby add nothing to the strength of Irish arguments?
It’s worth repeating this argument. Since the Irish have rejected the Treaty, quoth Kinnock, the best way for us to show our strong support for the Irish “no” is to vote “yes”. Quite extraordinary.
Full marks to Lord Pearson of Rannoch, then, who pointed out that at least 12 members of the Lords, including the egregious Kinnock, are in receipt of pensions from the EU, and therefore duty bound to promote Brussels’ interest in that chamber.
He then goes on to show the argument over Lord Kinnock’s mighty EU pension and that of other Noble Lords.
Definately a case of “he would say that, wouldn’t he”.
Gordon Brown, South Shields MP David Miliband, and those others in the Labour Party who have decided to completely ignore their 2005 election manifesto, should be ashamed of the way that they used words to plainly put pressure on the Irish government yesterday and then present it as though the Irish were looking for time to consider their position. They are clearly paving the way for the Irish people, along with us, to be completely ignored as federalism in Europe takes shape by simply deriding democracy, and their own rules.
Shame on you.
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