Party 'Must be Committed to Leave EU Constitution'
by Andrew Sparrow

Iain Duncan Smith should commit himself to withdrawing Britain from the European Union's proposed new constitution, leading Tories said yesterday.

The Conservative Party has called for a referendum on the constitution, which is under negotiation between member states.

But Lord Lamont, the former chancellor, and David Heathcote-Amory, a former minister, said that if Britain adopted the constitution before the party got into power, a future Conservative government should withdraw.

"We have to concentrate our efforts on making sure we get a referendum," Lord Lamont told a fringe meeting organised by the Bruges Group. But if that failed, Mr Duncan Smith should make it clear that the constitution would be part of a general "re-negotiation" of Britain's position within the EU once the Tories were in government, Lord Lamont said.

In his speech, Lord Lamont compared the ceremony held by the former French President, Valery Giscard D'Estang to mark the unveiling of the proposed constitution with an event organised by Nazi Germany.

"When the conclusions for that convention were unveiled, it was an enormous fanfare, the champagne flowed, there had been nothing like it since the field of the cloth of gold," he said. "President Giscard stood ram-rod to attention while in a ceremony reminiscent of the German Democratic Republic or the Third Reich, the 'Ode to Joy' was played. President Giscard was even compared to Socrates."

Mr Heathcote-Amory, the Tory representative on the convention that drew up the draft constitution, said: "If we accept this, we will be submitting ourselves formally and irreversibly to a superior political authority, something we have never done."

Robert Oulds, director of the Bruges Group, called on Mr Duncan Smith to sever all contact between Tory MEPs and the People's European Party, the pro-Brussels conservative group in the European Parliament to which the Tories are presently linked.

"Then we can start the process of building our opposition to the federalists and perhaps even change the course of Europe," he said.
The Daily Telegraph, 7th October 2003

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: After Sweden and Denmark's refusal to join the European single currency by popular mandate, Tony Blair has lost all impetus in trying to take Britain into the euro this side of a general election. The proposed EU constitution he is trying to foist onto the British public without their approbation however is an entirely different, and much more serious matter.

To his credit, 'Socrates' D'Estaing has made it clear that if Britain does not want to be part of the new European political state, she can withdraw, sign a free trade agreement, and trade independently as the EU's biggest customer. Giscard D'Estaing naturally knows that the new United States of Europe is on a hide into nowhere if the population of Europe is against the idea of political union (which many are), which is why he supports referenda on the issue in the nations involved.

Of all the premiers in Europe, Tony Blair remains conspicuously alone in denying his country a referendum on the constitution. He wants to be president of Europe, but knows his country won't vote to lose its independence to a corrupt, supranational organisation. Thus Britain is to be compelled into yielding her sovereignty to a foreign power over which the British people have little control. Further, Prime Minister Blair insists on giving aid and comfort to our previous enemies by encouraging the handing over of our army, navy, air force and sovereign powers to them. He has no popular mandate, or indeed the political right, to do this. Under the 1848 Treason Felonies Act, Tony Blair and other key members of his cabinet should be charged with treason.

For those wishing to learn what can be done to prevent Britain sliding into a future European financial insolvency and resultant anarchy (Germany herself is perilously close to economic meltdown at the present time because of the euro), may I recommend the two titles below, which explain the situation and the courses of action that may be taken.

This has nothing to do with party politics. This has everything to do with the kind of world you and your family will inhabit tomorrow.

Further resources
Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote

Available through www.credence.org