“Ginny’s boyfriend” gets it wrong again
Sir John Major warns Conservative Eurosceptics to keep quiet or Britain could end up leaving EU
The former prime minister has said Eurosceptics in the party are undermining David Cameron’s attempts to claw back powers from Brussels.
Let’s pause and reflect on the mind of a man who could make such a statement, given the state of the “debate” on getting the hell out of the EU.
I’ve just finished Lee Rotherham’s book Ten Years On from 2009 and some of the predictions have come to pass. The nature of Major’s utter inability to see that there is NO clawing back of anything with the EU monster, simply in or out and that we can do that now without any referendum is a sad indictment.
To think that this was a Prime Minister of this country and that he was succeeded by Blair, Brown and Cameron – what a sorry, sorry tale.
Eat yer peas and shut it.
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English Law was abolished in 1973 when we joined the Common Market
The only two who could see the full Constitutional implications of joining were Tony Benn and Enoch Powell.
Every PM since Heath has failed to understand that we ceased to be an independant country then, including SheWhoMustBeObeyed who aided our entrenchment by signing the Single European Act 1987.
Lord Justice Laws made it very clear in the case of Crown v Thorburn that the 1973 Act was a Constitutional Act with what are known as Henry VIII powers. In other words the principle that no Parliament can bind its successors no longer applied. For any subsequent Act of parliament which conflicts with European Law then European Law takes precedence.
Benn and Powell were correct all those years ago and, even now there are those who cannot or choose not to see it.
It will require an Act of Parliament to repeal the 1973 Act. All the talk of a Referendum is a waste of breath.
The good news is that Germany is entering a recession – and the even gooder news is that they do not want us to leave because we import considerably more from them than we export to them. Just think what a hole that would leave in their balance of trade figures!
Now, all we need is a PM with brains (don’t hold your breath)
As usual, Major’s misrepresents the EU as a static institution when it is of course a process of centralisation.
There is no way to claw back powers from within the EU, because it would forever seek to block, undermine and circumvent whatever the UK might achieve.
There are only two positions on the EU – in or out. Major knows that of course – he’s been trundled out to add some feeble gravitas to the propaganda.
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