Conservative MEPs Say Call For A Referendum Is Now Unstoppable
Posted, September 12, 2007 @ 00:00
The Lib-Lab pact to silence the British people is a disgrace, says Conservative leader, the day after the Government realised independent British foreign policy is under threat
The Conservative Leader in the European Parliament, Timothy Kirkhope MEP, says that the Ming Campbell-Gordon Brown Lib-Lab pact on the Reform Treaty means that Labour and the LibDems are deaf to the truth that the EU Reform Treaty is a con on the British people. Only yesterday British officials held emergency talks in Brussels yesterday trying to strengthen the so-called 'red lines' meant to deny the right for European judges to challenge foreign policy.
Mr Kirkhope said after the EU summit in June: "There is something not quite right about the draft reform treaty and the people know it. Labour maintains that it bears little resemblance to the Constitutional Treaty that preceded it. Yet, Heads of Government throughout Europe have contradicted this assessment."
In his 'Simplifying Treaty' (below) which sets out a five point new direction for the EU in the form of a Treaty Mr Kirkhope says that there is a positive alternative to the pseudo-constitution which it is now clear cannot protect the so-called 'red lines' Tony Blair negotiated in June.
Timothy Kirkhope said: "The 2005 Labour Manifesto promised a vote on the Constitution. The EU Reform Treaty is the constitution that dare not speak its name. It is a con on the British people for Gordon Brown to say he wants to listen when he is deaf to what political leaders are saying and deaf to the TUC and 120 of his own MPs.
"It is fundamentally wrong-headed to insist that the proposed new Reform Treaty (which amounts to a revival of the Constitution in all but name) is the only way forward for the European Union.
"The Reform Treaty sets out to move Europe in the wrong direction, towards ever more centralisation, while failing to address the real challenges facing Europe.
"The Simplifying Treaty provides a five point positive alternative. It is a route map for the people who want to be in Europe but not run by Europe.
"It shows there is another way for the British people."