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BROWN TELLS BRITISH EU REFERENDUM PETITIONERS TO "NAFF OFF"
13 August 2007
We received a petition asking:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to refrain from signing any agreement to create a new European Union treaty without first holding a referendum to ascertain the opinion of the British public."
Details of Petition:
"The Prime Minister is distorting the nature of the proposed treaty by insisting that it will not be a 'constituional' treaty. Anything that alters the relationship between the United Kingdom and Brussels must affect the way we are governed and undermines the ability of our Parliament to govern on behalf of the British people. This is a new EU constitution by stealth, a step that was rejected by the voters of France and The Netherlands."
TO READ SOME OF THE NAMES OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE WHO SIGNED THE PETITION:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/EU-Constituion/
AND HERE IS BROWN'S RESPONSE TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE :
EXCERPTS:
...The agreed basis for the new Reform Treaty states "The constitutional concept, which consisted in repealing all existing Treaties and replacing them by a single text called 'Constitution', is abandoned." The Reform Treaty will be clearly based upon the existing EU Treaties, and will be a traditional 'amending Treaty', along the lines of previous EU Treaties such as Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice. The UK has never held referendums on amending treaties in the past.
So the new Reform Treaty will improve the efficiency of the Union and enable us to focus more sharply on delivering results for our citizens. It sets out what the EU can and cannot do. It ensures that foreign policy remains an issue for national governments. It will strengthen the voice of national parliaments in the EU. And it provides the framework for an enlarged Union of nation states to work together for mutual benefit.Britain needs a more effective, efficient, coherent EU. The improvements contained in the Reform treaty will enhance the EU's capacity to act effectively to meet the shared challenges we face. As a result it is believed that the agreement reached in June represents an excellent deal for the UK's interests and for Britain's future within Europe.
FOR FULL RESPONSE GO TO:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page12866.asp
TOO BAD IF THE BRITISH PEOPLE WERE PROMISED A REFERENDUM - BROWN KNOWS BETTER THAN THE PEOPLE SO HIS RESPONSE TO US IS --
"NAFF OFF"!!!
WHAT in the name of all-that's-holy are these EU butt-kissers (yes, I mean the alleged "leaders" of Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, et al.) getting from Brussels that is worth sacrificing their countries, their citizens, (even European civilization itself) for?
WHY is allegiance to the EU and its doctrines more important to these men than the welfare of their own countrymen?
HOW can these "Western leaders" justify following the dictates of an unelected body, against the wishes and interests of the citizens who elected them?
The "free movement of goods, capital, persons, and services" is of benefit to those doing the moving; it may not be to the benefit of those forced to accept such movement...
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PS- the comments section of the link below has some interesting observations:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/comment/0,,2147243,00.html
"truthhurtsu" says "The EU project has leapfrogged all niceties like consent, consultation and democracy and now we have the birth of an authoritarian superstate, sucking funds out of EU taxpayers, largely unaccountable if not totally unaccountable, run by a cabal of power mad bureaucrats, who refuse to slow down, refuse to consult, refuse in effect to listen."
also see comments at
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,2147277,00.html
"namechanger" says: "The elites are not asking our opinion in the UK about a European constitution, for the same reason Washington is keeping secret the North American Union and the Amero currency set to replace the dollar. These are stages on the way to full globalisation and a one world economic and political structure, with the elites living in various gated and guarded havens, and the rest of us working our asses off to pay them taxes to further repress any areas of dissent."
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_crace/2007/07/leave_europe_to_the_politicians.html
has some choice obfuscatory gobbledygook from the new EU treaty.
and see
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9619050
for a description of WHY the language of the new treaty was deliberately made as opaque as possible. "Specifically, ever more bigwigs have stated that the EU's new treaty was deliberately made as unintelligible as possible so as to make it easier to win new powers for Brussels," declares the author.
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