Reigate & Redhill
December 1st - the day we lost our sovereignty
Saturday, 12th December 2009
December the 1st 2009 was a very sad day for Britain, because this was the day when we lost control over our country and our sovereignty.
The was the day when the Lisbon treaty came into effect, without a vote, without any riots in the streets, without hardly any coverage in the papers, all because we have been lied to by the main Political Parties.
This was the day when we wonder why we fought so hard in the last two world wars, for freedom justice and liberty, only to give all this away to an unelected body in Brussels.
This was the day when we surrendered our laws, defense policy, Police, Armed Forces, the Queen, our currency, our identity, and our way of life, to belong to a European Super state, all without a vote. Now under the Lisbon Treaty, the EU has acquired a "legal personality", which gives it the right to sign accords and treaties with other states. The EU now has a foreign minister, a president, a diplomatic corps, an Army, Police force and 160 overseas embassies.
Before the 1st of December 2009, Britain could simply walk out of the EU by abrogating the Treaty of Rome and repealing the 1972 European Communities Act. Now, it will have to go through the secession procedure laid down in Lisbon. In other words - in the minds of Euro-lawyers, at any rate, if not of British constitutionalists - the EU gets to settle the terms on which its members are allowed to leave. Formal sovereignty has been shifted from the national capitals to Brussels.
It is appalling, demeaning and disgraceful that such a thing should have been done without popular consent, and in the absence of the referendum that all three parties had promised. "There's no point in crying over spilt milk," you might say. True. But there is every point in making a protest.
You can do this by going to http://www.ukip.org/petition/Referendum-on-the-EU
Unless we get out of this sinister union and organise proper free trade agreements, we will never be able to sing with conviction “Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves, Britain, never, never, never, will be slaves” because at the moment we are!
