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I will stand agog if Cameron has balls to do this
The Open Europe think-tank suggested last week that the Government faced a "one-off opportunity" to repatriate 130 EU laws on crime and policing. A provision in the Lisbon Treaty means ministers must decide before June 2014 whether the entire package should continue to apply to the UK, it claimed.
The MPs, including former shadow home secretary David Davis and the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee Graham Brady, said the Open Europe report offered a "pragmatic alternative" to European Commission plans for "a pan-European code of Euro Crimes".
Declining to sign up would still leave open the option to opt back in to any individual element deemed vital on a case-by-case basis, they wrote.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "The Government will be looking closely at these laws and whether they benefit Britain before making a decision about whether to opt in. In taking any decision we will act in the national interest."
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Which means that Cameron will do nothing but accede to the wishes of the EU.
Talk Constitution is open for discussion
When you ask someone what they want Government to be like, how they wish to be governed, 99 times out of a hundred the answer you will get will be ‘I don’t want Government to ….’
It is very easy to criticise, it is very easy to tear down and destroy, but not quite so easy to build, to articulate exactly what it is that you do want when it comes to the governance of our country.
That is why having a forum where you can outline what you do want, and having people agree with you, or challenge it, discuss it and have your ideas refined is such a good idea.
Get ye over to http://talkconstitution.net and put forward your ideas on how government should work, what they should or should not be allowed to do, how local authorities should work, how taxes should be levied, raised and disbursed, or suggest clauses and wording for a written codified constitution for this land of ours.
Don’t get hung up with the way it is, think outside of the box, tell us what you WANT it to be like. Don’t expect to be led by the nose by the board moderators, YOU make the suggestions, and ultimately you will also be one of the participants that make the decisions.
Be frank, be bold, but please keep it polite.
I don’t believe in stupid
This story, http://timworstall.com/2011/12/27/a-glorious-example-of-rule-by-fuckwits/ to me is a prime example of treason, not fuckwittery. A law which is introduced by civil servants AFTER it had been expressly rejected by parliament.
I don’t believe in stupid in cases of this nature because that would be to defame genuinely stupid people everywhere, but I do believe in the politically fanatical & malicious, and lets face it Defra is one of the prime departments for pro-EU fanatical activity.
Whoever drafted that Statutory Instrument and pushed it through the system are the kind of people who MUST appear on the Judas Class database, which is being populated now with the politically fanatical & malicious useful idiots, and I am sure that this cannot be the only ‘law’ created in this manner.
So what is to become of the particular offence created by this SI, bearing in mind that it was rejected by parliament, even though the SI was slipped through. Is the offence to be purged from the statutes, the law books? Are those already convicted under this offence to have their records wiped clean, to be compensated by Defra or will their convictions and the offence stand because to remove it now will mean that someone will ‘lose face’, or is it more likely to uncover a nest of Common Purpose vipers.
Is it indeed time to revisit the use of SI’s altogether, a system introduced only to push through unobserved, unread, un-debated by parliamentarians in quick time and in huge volumes, un-noticed by the MSM and public, the hundreds of thousands of rules imposed upon us by the EU.
Give these people enough rope…
n.b. This is why I say that when, not if, we repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and leave the EU, then ALL laws, regulations, rules created after that date which rely on that act and any subsequent treaties with the EU must be repealed in full. We cannot afford to leave a single trace of the EU in our system.