Where is our referendum?
19 October 2007
Statement by Jim Allister MEP:
“Now that Gordon Brown has foolishly signed up without a whimper to the recycled EU Constitution, he must deliver on the Labour Manifesto pledge of a referendum. Make no mistake, this “Reform Treaty” involves further massive hemorrhaging of sovereignty to Brussels. Quite apart from establishing the apparatus of statehood for the EU, with a President, Foreign Policy Supremo and legal personality enabling the EU to make international Treaties, it, very significantly, gives up the national veto on dozens of more policy areas. It is the old Constitution merely by another name.
As for the UK’s supposed “red lines”, these will soon degrade to mere pink smudges, soon to be rubbed out by a federalizing European Court of Justice. Blair had opt outs on the last Constitution, they were no more durable or meaningful than what Brown has this time. Opt in, opt out, shake it all about, its still the same old game of building the European Superstate.
Thus, democrats demand a referendum. Just as Brown ran scared from an election, so he is now running scared from letting the British people have their say on this latest ruse to further deplete member states of sovereign power.”
